Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911-1949
Tom G. Hoogervorst
Abstract
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, this book examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations. As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. The book deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs brought Chinese-infl ... More
Keywords: Malay, Chinese-Indonesian community, Dutch colonial rule, colonial power relations, language, ethnic Chinese, Indonesia
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501758225 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2022 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501758225.001.0001 |
