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Peranakan Chinese communities and their 'hybrid' culture have fascinated many observers. This book, comprising fourteen chapters, was mainly based on papers written by the author in the last two decades. The chapters address Peranakan Chinese cultural, national and political identities in the Malay Archipelago, i.e., Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore (IMS). This book is divided into two parts. Part I which is on the regional dimension, contains nine chapters that discuss the three countries and beyond. Part II consists of five chapters which focus on one country, i.e., Indonesia. This book not only discusses the past and the present, but also the future of the Peranakan Chinese.
Chinese --- Peranakan (Asian people) --- Ethnic identity. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Social conditions. --- Babas (Asian people) --- Jawi Peranakan (Asian people) --- Straits Chinese --- East Indians --- Ethnology
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History and cultural assimilation of the Jawi Peranakan in Pinang, Malaysia.
Peranakan (Asian people) --- Cultural assimilation --- History --- Pinang Island (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) --- Ethnic relations
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Set in Singapore in the 1910s, A Nyonya Mosaic is the story of a young girl growing up in a slowly changing world. William Gwee Thian Hock relates the childhood impressions of his Nyonya mother through her own eyes - the scenes of happiness, birthdays and weddings; and the inevitable disease and death; the childish passions and fears woven through the mosaic of a strict and sometimes unrelenting culture; as intricate and as colourful in its every detail. Much in the foreground is the family, her matriarchal grandmother, her dogmatic father and her siblings, all with their own stories, but alwa
Peranakan (Asian people) --- Social life and customs. --- Seow, Leong Neo, --- Gwee, Thian Hock --- Childhood and youth. --- Family.
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Malaysia is among the most ethnically diverse and culturally rich nations on earth. Yet much of its cultural wealth lies buried beneath the rubric of its main Malay, Chinese and Indian 'race' categories; the dazzling diversity within and outside these groups remains largely unexplored. This book uncovers some of this fascinating diversity through the stories of five little-known acculturated ethnic groups in Peninsula Malaysia. The author, a Malaysian sociologist, delivers an insightful and lucid study of these groups, with some surprising findings. These communities illustrate how much more cross-cultural mingling, sharing and co-dependence there is within Malaysian society than we care to recognize, admit or celebrate. This raises various questions: Is a similar process of spontaneous inter-ethnic interaction possible between larger ethnic groups today? How can we foster such acculturation, and can it by itself contribute to ethnic harmony? The author also discovers that despite their long settlement and deep acculturation, segments of these groups are anxious about their future, and pine for an indigenous identity. What are the implications of this trend for ethnic relations, and how can it be resolved?
This book traces the acculturation journey of these communities and draws lessons for ethnic relations in one of the most complex multi-ethnic nations in the world. It will appeal to scholars, students, laymen and visitors interested in migration, history, culture, ethnicity and heritage in Malaysia and the region.
Boyanese (Indonesian people) --- Peranakan (Asian people) --- Portuguese --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Ethnicity --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Babas (Asian people) --- Jawi Peranakan (Asian people) --- Straits Chinese --- Chinese --- East Indians --- Baweanese (Indonesian people) --- Orang Babian (Indonesian people) --- Orang Bawean (Indonesian people) --- Orang Boyan (Indonesian people) --- Suku Bawean (Indonesian people) --- Ethnic identity. --- Malaysia --- Ethnic relations.
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This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggle to build new nations during four decades of an ideological Cold War and the Chinese determination to move from near-collapse in the 1940s and out of the traumatic changes of the Maoist revolution to become the powerhouse that it now is.
Chinese --- Peranakan (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Babas (Asian people) --- Jawi Peranakan (Asian people) --- Straits Chinese --- East Indians --- Ethnic identity. --- Ethnic Identity. --- Malaysia --- Singapore --- Ciṅkappūr --- Colony of Singapore --- Garden City --- Hsin-chia-pʻo --- Lion City --- Red Dot --- Republic of Singapore --- Republik Singapura --- Singapore City (Singapore) --- Singapore Colony --- Singapore (Singapore) --- Singapour --- Singapur --- Singapura --- Singkhapō --- Tumasik (Singapore) --- Xinjiapo --- Xinjiapo gong he guo --- Xinjiapo Gongheguo --- 新加坡 --- 新加坡共和国 --- Syonan-to --- Relations --- Singapoer --- سنغافورة --- Sanghāfūrah --- Singhāfūrah --- Sinqapur --- Sin-ka-pho --- Сінгапур --- Sinhapur --- Сингапур --- Singgapura --- Σιγκαπούρη --- Sinkapoyrē --- Singapuro --- Singapul --- Sinngapuur --- Singeapór --- 싱가포르 --- Singgap'orŭ --- Singafora --- Sinapoa --- סינגפור --- Singapuri --- Sengapou --- Singapūras --- Singapūro Respublika --- Scingapô --- Szingapúr --- Singaporo --- Hingapoa --- シンガポール --- Shingapōru
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