The Chinese in Indonesia have played an important role in Indonesian society before and after the fall of Soeharto. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information by examining them in detail during that era with special reference to the post-Soeharto period. The contributors to this volume consist of both older- and younger-generation scholars writing on Indonesian Chinese. They of…
Benarkah stereotip yang mengatakan bahwa golongan Tionghoa, sebagaimana dicitrakan oleh mesin propaganda Orde Baru, hanyalah sekumpulan oportunis yang menginginkan kekayaan tanpa prinsip dan tidak punya kepedulian apapun terhadap masyarakat dan politik di sekitarnya? Buku ini mengingatkan kita kembali militansi komunitas Tionghoa. Banyak kenyataan sejarah yang ditutup-tutupi atau secara tak sen…
Buku serius pertama tentang orang Cina Khek di Singkawang, Kalimantan Barat. Dikerjakan selama 15 tahun dengan studi kepustakaan di Indonesia, Singapura dan Belanda juga wawancara langsung orang Cina Khek. Hasilnya sebuah karya yang gamblang dan menyeluruh mengenai masyarakat Cina Khek di Singkawang.
In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began to collaborate with Chinese emigrants to develop a worldwide trading system. The author explores both int…
Leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ang reflects upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and considers the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian…