Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-19121-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1140 g

Reihe: Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change

The existing literature on Chinese Indonesians has so far tended to take an approach of either victimization and marginalization or a focus on elite businessmen and their economic influence. This volume takes a different perspective. The Chinese in Indonesia were not only innocent victims of history, but were simultaneously active agents of change. Chinese Indonesians from different walks of life played an active role in shaping society during regime changes and found creative and constructive ways to deal with situations of adversity. This book demonstrates that regime changes in Indonesia did not only pose threats of violence, but also offered opportunities that induced “agency” on the part of Chinese Indonesians to shape their own destinies and that of the country.

Zielgruppe

Readership for this volume would be Southeast Asianists, Indonesianists, historians, anthropologists, management scholars, students of Overseas Chinese studies, and Overseas Chinese intellectuals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dieleman, Marleen

Koning, Juliette

Post, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction
1. Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change: Alternative Perspectives
Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning, Peter Post
Part II: Policy and Dignity: Chineseness during and after the New Order
2. Business, Belief, and Belonging: Small Business Owners and Conversion to Charismatic Christianity
Juliette Koning
3. Assimilation, Differentiation, and Depoliticization: Chinese Indonesians and the Ministry of Home Affairs in Suharto’s Indonesia
Nobuhiro Aizawa
4. Diversity in Compliance: Yogyakarta Chinese and the New Order Assimilation Policy
Andreas Susanto
Part III: Justice and Representation: The Chinese in the Netherlands East Indies
5. The Chinese Connection: Rewriting Journalism and Social Categories in Indonesian History
Nobuto Yamamoto
6. The Loa Joe Djin-Case. A Trigger to Change
Patricia Tjiook-Liem
Part IV: Survival and Creativity: Chinese Business Responses to Regime Change
7. Crisis Management and Creative Adjustment: Margo-Redjo in the 1930s
Alexander Claver
8. The Oei Tiong Ham Concern and the Change of Regimes in Indonesia, 1931–1950
Peter Post
9. Continuous and Discontinuous Change in Ethnic Chinese Business Networks: The Case of the Salim Group
Marleen Dieleman

Über Autor(innen)

Dieleman, Marleen
Marleen Dieleman, Ph.D. (2007) from Leiden University, is a visiting fellow at NUS Business School. She published extensively on Asian family business, including The Rhythm of Strategy: A Corporate Biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia (Amsterdam University Press, 2007).

Koning, Juliette
Juliette Koning, Ph.D. (1997) in Social Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, is a senior lecturer at the VU University Amsterdam. She has published extensively on religion, ethnicity and entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia, Indonesia in particular, including a special issue on ‘the business of identity’ with Can Seng Ooi for East Asia: An International Quarterly (2007).

Post, Peter
Peter Post, PhD (1991) in Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, is a senior-researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (Brill, 2010)