ISBN:
9781501772504
,
9781501772511
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 253 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seng, Guo-Quan, 1981- Strangers in the family
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seng, Guo-Quan Strangers in the family
DDC:
305.48/89510598
Keywords:
Chinese History 20th century
;
Chinese History 19th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
History
;
Women Social conditions 19th century
;
History
;
Interethnic marriage Social aspects
;
Asian history
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
Colonialism & imperialism
;
Gender Studies: Gruppen
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Gender studies, gender groups
;
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
;
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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POL045000
;
Politics & government
;
Politik und Staat
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
;
Indonesia Ethnic relations
;
South East Asia
;
Südostasien
;
Niederländisch-Indien
;
Chinesen
;
Familie
;
Ethnologie
Abstract:
"A gendered history of minority Chinese identity-formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial era. Told from the paradigm of women, This book shows that settler Chinese ethnic boundaries hardened over time through the community's construction and reinvention of patrilineal marriage norms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-
Abstract:
In Strangers in the Family, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816-1942). At the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the colonial legal, moral, and sexual conditions of urban Java. Departing from male-centered narratives of Ooverseas Chinese communities, Strangers in the Family tells the history of community- formation from the perspective of women who were subordinate to, and alienated from, full Chinese selfhood. From native concubines and mothers, creole Chinese daughters, and wives and matriarchs, to the first generation of colonial-educated feminists, Seng showcases women's moral agency as they negotiated, manipulated, and debated men in positions of authority over their rights in marriage formation and dissolution. In dialogue with critical studies of colonial Eurasian intimacies, this book explores Asian-centered inter-ethnic patterns of intimate encounters. It shows how contestations over women's place in marriage and in society were formative of a Chinese racial identity in colonial Indonesia
Description / Table of Contents:
Nyai liminality -- Bourgeois manhood and marital modernity -- Divorce and women's agency -- Women's wealth and matriarchal strategies -- Confucianism, marriage, and sexuality -- Love, Desire, and Race -- The civilizing gift of monogamy -- Registering births, racializing illegitimacy.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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