Strangers at Home

History and Subjectivity Among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-17340-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Chinese Overseas

This is an ethno-historical study of Chinese from West Kalimantan, Indonesia that, unlike other Chinese Diasporic studies, takes its departure from the “away” position. The study aims to interrogate how, where, and in what terms “home” is defined for the stranger. Through examining historical events such as the Japanese Occupation, the repatriation of overseas Chinese to China, and ethnic and state violence in West Kalimantan, this study highlights the plight of the Chinese as political orphans in search of a home that eludes them, whether in Indonesia or China. Through a rich array of different kinds of data, including oral histories and memoirs of the Communist underground, this book offers novel perspectives on the role of history in subject formation.

“Here are two treasures for the reader. On the one hand the book offers a highly nuanced and sensitive exploration of the identity dilemmas of diaspora-dom as they affect a particularly conflicted Indonesian community. The imagining of homeland for his young and idealistic subjects had real-world consequences and speaks to a universal condition. On the other hand Strangers at Home provides for the first time a reliable insight into the conflicts of the 1940s and 1960s which tore apart a corner of Indonesia which was exceptionally “Chinese”. The author has consulted an unprecedented range of newspaper articles, memoires and other writings by West Kalimantan Chinese-educated literati, as well as the necessary Indonesian and English material. More importantly, he has gained the confidence of key Chinese-Indonesian informants sufficient to tell their story personally and evocatively.” - Anthony Reid, Australian National University

Zielgruppe

For those interested in studies of Chinese Diasporas, Chinese ethnography, modern Indonesian history, Cold War history, migration, ethnic and state violence, as well as subject formation in post-colonial states.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hui, Yew-Foong

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Section 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Chinese Diasporic Subject as Stranger
Section 2: Looking for Home in a Foreign Land
Chapter 2: The Japanese Occupation and the Chinese Anti-Japanese Movement
Chapter 3: Post-War, Pre-New Order
Section 3: The New (Dis)Order: Making Strangers at Home
Chapter 4: Recovering a Place in History: Narratives of Violence
Chapter 5: The Vicissitudes of the Communist Underground
Section 4: Negotiating Estrangement: Between Cosmology and the Social
Chapter 6: The Phenomenology of Spirits, or the Presencing of the Other
Section 5: West Kalimantan as Home
Chapter 7: On the Politics and Poetics of Home
Epilogue: The Uncertainty of Strangers

Über Autor(innen)

Hui, Yew-Foong
HUI Yew-Foong, Ph.D. (2007) in Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies, Cornell University, is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He has conducted multi-sited field research in Indonesia, East Malaysia, China and Hong Kong.