The Chinese from Indonesia

The History of a Minority

Patricia Tjiook-Liem, Linawati Sidarto

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040782187
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

The Chinese played a vital part in the Dutch colonial economy, and their economic role has remained important throughout the centuries. Starting in the early 1900s, China also influenced their socio-political life. After the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies managed to shed most discriminatory regulations in the first decades of the twentieth century, they again had to strive for their rights in the new Republic of Indonesia. This proved to be a difficult process filled with tension surrounding the issues of culture, ethnicity and nationality. In this book, Patricia Tjiook-Liem puts Chinese Indonesians at the centre of Dutch colonial and Indonesian history, and takes you through the most important periods in this often underexposed history.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• I From Migrant to Major (1619–1800): The Chinese and the Development of Their Economic Position in the VOC Period (1619–1800)
• II From Migrant to Major (1800–1900): Crucial Intermediaries in the Colonial State
• III Education, Equality, and Political Awareness (1900–1942): Emancipation
• IV Educational Facilities (1900–1942)
• V ‘Asia for the Asians’ (1942–1945): The Japanese Occupation
• VI Between Two Fires (1945–1949): The Years of the Indonesian Revolution
• VII Equal is Unequal (1949–1967): A Minority in the Republic
• VIII Students in the Netherlands and Other Newcomers
• Biographical Sketches
• Timeline
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index