Peter Post
Biographic Data
| ID | 731342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Post |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Post |
| SIGNATURE | POST P |
| AFFILIATIONS | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Profitable partnerships
This article examines the collaboration between the law firm of C.W. Baron van Heeckeren from Semarang and the Oei Tiong Ham Concern (OTHC). From the 1880s this Dutch law firm became the centre of a close-knit group of Dutch lawyer-entrepreneurs who through interlocking business directorships developed important sectors of the Javanese economy and the city of Semarang. In doing so Van Heeckeren and his associates teamed up with the Chinese busine…
Founding an Ethnic Chinese Business Empire in Colonial Asia
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 92, Part 2, No. 317, December 2019
Bringing China to Java
This paper discusses the paramount role of the Oei Tiong Ham Concern ( OTHC ) of Semarang in the “Buy Chinese Products” movement of the Republican Government during the period 1928–1937 and its attempts to control Java’s sugar trade with China during the same period. In doing so, the paper focuses on the personal relations between Chen Kung-po (Chen Gongbo), the Republican Minister of Trade and Industry, and the OTHC leadership, as well as the cl…
Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change
Part I: Introduction 1. Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change: Alternative Perspectives Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning, Peter Post Part II: Policy and Dignity: Chineseness during and after the New Order 2. Business, Belief, and Belonging: Small Business Owners and Conversion to Charismatic Christianity Juliette Koning 3. Assimilation, Differentiation, and Depoliticization: Chinese Indonesians and the Ministry of Home Affairs in Suharto's Indon…
The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War
"An obvious hiatus amidst the abundance of Pacific War studies is the story of Indonesia during that period. The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War, edited under the aegis of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, now fills that gap. This state of the art work reflects the different experiences and historiographic traditions of Indonesians, Japanese, and Dutch. The aim is to present the developments in the Indonesian archipela…
Indonesian Economic Decolonization in Regional and International Perspective
This collection of essays provides insights into the complex process of economic decolonization in Indonesia from a variety of perspectives. The emancipation from Dutch colonialism in the economic sphere is linked to the unique features of the new nation-state emerging in newly independent Indonesia. This included a key role in business for the military. A key part was also played by indigenous Indonesian business firms that were shaped by the Ja…
The Kwik Hoo Tong Trading Society of Semarang, Java
The main argument of this article is that the middlemen paradigm which since the Second World War has come to dominate academic writings and popular perceptions of Chinese business in late colonial Indonesia is generally flawed, and has hindered the development of a more nuanced picture of the nature of Chinese economic activity in pre-war Southeast Asia
Japan, Indonesia and the War
Remembering Rollo May
The formation of the pribumi business élite in Indonesia, 1930s-1940s
The formation of the pribumi business elite in Indonesia, 1930s-1940s Introduction 1 On 19 May 1928, the Japanese-language newspaper published in Batavia, Java Nippo, annoyed by the anti-Japanese boycotts of Chinese traders, called for the elimination of Chinese intermediate trade in the Indies Archipelago and suggested that Japanese companies should contact European, indigenous, and Arab merchant houses.The newspaper stated that, were the Japane…
De haanscene in de vroeg-christelijke kunst
The Kwik Hoo Tong Trading Society of Semarang, Java
The main argument of this article is that the middlemen paradigm which since the Second World War has come to dominate academic writings and popular perceptions of Chinese business in late colonial Indonesia is generally flawed, and has hindered the development of a more nuanced picture of the nature of Chinese economic activity in pre-war Southeast Asia
The formation of the pribumi business élite in Indonesia, 1930s-1940s
The formation of the pribumi business elite in Indonesia, 1930s-1940s Introduction 1 On 19 May 1928, the Japanese-language newspaper published in Batavia, Java Nippo, annoyed by the anti-Japanese boycotts of Chinese traders, called for the elimination of Chinese intermediate trade in the Indies Archipelago and suggested that Japanese companies should contact European, indigenous, and Arab merchant houses.The newspaper stated that, were the Japane…
Bringing China to Java
This paper discusses the paramount role of the Oei Tiong Ham Concern ( OTHC ) of Semarang in the “Buy Chinese Products” movement of the Republican Government during the period 1928–1937 and its attempts to control Java’s sugar trade with China during the same period. In doing so, the paper focuses on the personal relations between Chen Kung-po (Chen Gongbo), the Republican Minister of Trade and Industry, and the OTHC leadership, as well as the cl…
De haanscene in de vroeg-christelijke kunst
Remembering Rollo May
The formation of the pribumi business élite in Indonesia, 1930s-1940s
The formation of the pribumi business elite in Indonesia, 1930s-1940s Introduction 1 On 19 May 1928, the Japanese-language newspaper published in Batavia, Java Nippo, annoyed by the anti-Japanese boycotts of Chinese traders, called for the elimination of Chinese intermediate trade in the Indies Archipelago and suggested that Japanese companies should contact European, indigenous, and Arab merchant houses.The newspaper stated that, were the Japane…
Japan, Indonesia and the War
The Kwik Hoo Tong Trading Society of Semarang, Java
The main argument of this article is that the middlemen paradigm which since the Second World War has come to dominate academic writings and popular perceptions of Chinese business in late colonial Indonesia is generally flawed, and has hindered the development of a more nuanced picture of the nature of Chinese economic activity in pre-war Southeast Asia
Indonesian Economic Decolonization in Regional and International Perspective
This collection of essays provides insights into the complex process of economic decolonization in Indonesia from a variety of perspectives. The emancipation from Dutch colonialism in the economic sphere is linked to the unique features of the new nation-state emerging in newly independent Indonesia. This included a key role in business for the military. A key part was also played by indigenous Indonesian business firms that were shaped by the Ja…
The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War
"An obvious hiatus amidst the abundance of Pacific War studies is the story of Indonesia during that period. The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War, edited under the aegis of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, now fills that gap. This state of the art work reflects the different experiences and historiographic traditions of Indonesians, Japanese, and Dutch. The aim is to present the developments in the Indonesian archipela…
Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change
Part I: Introduction 1. Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change: Alternative Perspectives Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning, Peter Post Part II: Policy and Dignity: Chineseness during and after the New Order 2. Business, Belief, and Belonging: Small Business Owners and Conversion to Charismatic Christianity Juliette Koning 3. Assimilation, Differentiation, and Depoliticization: Chinese Indonesians and the Ministry of Home Affairs in Suharto's Indon…
Founding an Ethnic Chinese Business Empire in Colonial Asia
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 92, Part 2, No. 317, December 2019
Bringing China to Java
This paper discusses the paramount role of the Oei Tiong Ham Concern ( OTHC ) of Semarang in the “Buy Chinese Products” movement of the Republican Government during the period 1928–1937 and its attempts to control Java’s sugar trade with China during the same period. In doing so, the paper focuses on the personal relations between Chen Kung-po (Chen Gongbo), the Republican Minister of Trade and Industry, and the OTHC leadership, as well as the cl…
Profitable partnerships
This article examines the collaboration between the law firm of C.W. Baron van Heeckeren from Semarang and the Oei Tiong Ham Concern (OTHC). From the 1880s this Dutch law firm became the centre of a close-knit group of Dutch lawyer-entrepreneurs who through interlocking business directorships developed important sectors of the Javanese economy and the city of Semarang. In doing so Van Heeckeren and his associates teamed up with the Chinese busine…
Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economy (6 works) · China (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)