Peranakan Chinese Identities in the Globalizing Malay Archipelago

Download or read book Peranakan Chinese Identities in the Globalizing Malay Archipelago written by Leo Suryadinata and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.