1st Edition
Chinese Indonesians Reassessed History, Religion and Belonging
Introduction: Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: A Critical Review Siew-Min Sai and Chang-Yau Hoon 1. The Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan School: A Transborder Project of Modernity in Batavia, c.1900s Didi Kwartanada 2. The Nanyang Diasporic Imaginary: Chinese School Teachers in a Transborder Setting in the Dutch East Indies Siew-Min Sai 3. Chineseness, Belonging and Cosmopolitan Subjectivities in Post-Suharto Independent Films Charlotte Setijadi-Dunn 4. Materializing Racial Formation: the Social Lives of Confiscated Chinese Properties in North Sumatra Yen-ling Tsai 5. The Translocal Subject between China and Indonesia: The Case of the Pemangkat Chinese of West Kalimantan Hui Yew-Foong 6. The Chinese of Karimun: Citizenship and Belonging at Indonesia’s Margins Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford 7. The Spirit-mediums of Singkawang: Performing Peoplehood of West Kalimantan Margaret Chan 8. "By Race, I am Chinese; and by Grace, I am Christian:" Negotiating Chineseness and Christianity in Indonesia Chang-Yau Hoon 9. Expressing Chineseness, Marketing Islam: Hybrid Performance of Chinese Muslim Preachers Hew Wai-Weng 10. A Controversy Surrounding Chinese-Indonesian Muslims’ Practice of Imlek Salat in Central Java Syuan-yuan Chiou
Biography
Siew-Min Sai is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the National University of Singapore.
Chang-Yau Hoon is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Singapore Management University.
