Chinese adaptation and diversity : essays on society and literature in Indonesia, Malaysia & Singapore / edited by Leo Suryadinata
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1993
Information About
The papers here feature the Chinese immigrants in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore - the problems they faced in the Western colonies, their social, cultural, and economic activities; and their attempts to adjust to the new environment especially after these colonies became independent. The process of change and adaptation is reflected in their communities and their literature.
Subjects
Chinese--Singapore--Social conditions Chinese--Indonesia--Social conditions Chinese--Malaysia--Social conditions Chinese--Southeast Asia Chinese--Cultural assimilation--Southeast Asia Malaysian literature (Chinese) Chinese--Foreign countries Singaporean literature (Chinese)Categories
Heritage and CultureAdditional Details
- Title
- Chinese adaptation and diversity : essays on society and literature in Indonesia, Malaysia & Singapore / edited by Leo Suryadinata
- Subject
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- Chinese--Singapore--Social conditions
- Chinese--Indonesia--Social conditions
- Chinese--Malaysia--Social conditions
- Chinese--Southeast Asia
- Chinese--Cultural assimilation--Southeast Asia
- Malaysian literature (Chinese)
- Chinese--Foreign countries
- Singaporean literature (Chinese)
- Publisher
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- Published for Centre for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, NUS [by] Singapore University Press, 1993
- National Library Board Singapore, 1993
- Contributors
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- Suryadinata, Leo
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill., maps
- Table of Contents
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- an introductory note -- 2. Occupation and Chinese dialect group in British Malaya -- 3. The Xinghua community in Singapore: a study of the socio-economic adjustment of a minority group -- 4. Local Chinese banks in Singapore -- 5. The state and Chinese minority in Indonesia -- 6. From Peranakan Chinese literature to Indonesian literature: a preliminary study -- 7. Literature in English by Chinese in Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore: its origins and development -- 8. Chinese language literature in Malaya and Singapore (1919-1942) -- 9. Ideologies and literature: the development of Chinese language poetry in Post-War Singapore.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.