ISBN:
9789048189090
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (276 pages)
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DDC:
305.8951059
Keywords:
Chinese -- Southeast Asia -- Ethnic identity
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Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations
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Abstract:
Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Racializing Chineseness -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Research Problematics -- 1.2.1 Identity, Hybridity, and Multiple Chineseness -- 1.2.2 Ethno-Racialization -- 1.2.3 Cultural Contact, Positions and Ethnic Relations -- 1.2.4 Community, Economic Identity and Racializing Economics -- 1.2.5 Ethnic Policies and the State -- 1.3 Country Surveys -- 1.3.1 Rethinking Assimilation and Chineseness in Thailand -- 1.3.2 One Face, Many Masks: The Chinese in Singapore -- 1.3.3 ''Sama Makan tak Sama Makan'': The Chinese in Malaysia -- 1.3.4 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Chinese in Indonesia -- 1.3.5 Half Chinese or Three Quarters Chinese: The Chinese in Burma -- 1.3.6 A Love-Hate Relationship: The Chinese in Vietnam -- 1.3.7 Hybridization and Chineseness in the Philippines -- 1.4 Research Methodology -- Notes -- 2 Rethinking Assimilation and Chineseness in Thailand -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 History of the Chinese in Thailand -- 2.2.1 Perception of the Early Chinese Immigrants -- 2.2.2 Rapid Expansion of the Chinese Community in the Nineteenth Century -- 2.2.3 The Character of the Chinese Society -- 2.2.4 The Chinese as the Other -- 2.2.5 Discriminatory Policies Towards the Chinese -- 2.3 Assimilation and the Chinese in Thailand -- 2.4 Bilingualism and Bicultural Education -- 2.5 Socio-Economic Organizations and Occupational Differentiation -- 2.6 Religion, Tradition and Ethnic Intermarriage -- 2.7 The Rise of China -- Notes -- 3 One Face, Many Masks: The Chinese in Singapore -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 History of the Chinese in Singapore -- 3.2.1 Economic Activities -- 3.2.2 Education -- 3.2.3 Community Organization and Structure -- 3.2.4 Segregation and the Use of Space -- 3.2.5 Religious Beliefs and Practices -- 3.2.6 Relationships to Host Country, Homeland and Other Diasporic Communities -- 3.3 Ethnicity in Flux.
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