Reconstructing Chineseness
Chinese Media and Chinese Identity in Post-Reform Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22017109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Setefanus Suprajitno (0000-0003-4737-0933, Petra Christian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kemanusiaan (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2180-4257 • E-ISSN: 1394-9330 |
| Publisher | Universiti Sains Malaysia (PUBLISHER • MY) |
| DOI | 10.21315/kajh2020.27.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W3017241061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The fall of Suharto in 1998 brought winds of change to Indonesia, especially to policies concerning the Chinese. After being suppressed under the Suharto regime, Chinese Indonesians suddenly had an opportunity to express their cultural heritage in their own ethnic media, counter negative stereotypes and reconstruct an identity that had been virtually erased during the Suharto era. In this article, author examines the discursive practices Chinese Indonesians use to remould their ethnic identity through an analysis of the media strategies used to reinvigorate the Chinese Indonesian identity. It was found from the Chinese media, as exemplified in Qiandao Ribao, Guoji Ribao and Yindunixiya Shangbao, that the re-creation of the Chinese identity requires an understanding of what it was to be Chinese through the use of the symbols most salient to Chinese ethnicity. The media have been strongly geared towards the reconstruction and maintenance of a Chinese identity that sees Chinese Indonesians as an imagined community whose ethnicity is symbolically perceived and maintained through frequent exposure to the ethnic media. By being exposed to the ethnic media, Chinese Indonesian readers can feel a sense of ethnic belonging and identity through perceived affiliation and shared symbols. However, although they succeeded in bringing Chinese culture back to the Indonesian public sphere, the diversity in the Chinese community challenges the media efforts to construct a definitive Chinese identity
Aesthetics · Art · China · Chinese americans · Chinese community · Chinese people · Ethnic chinese · Ethnic group · Indonesian · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Islamic Finance and Communication · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law
Modernity at large
Ethnic groups and boundaries
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Media Events
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
Chinese Press after the New Order
Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong
The Symbolic Construction of Community
Beyond “Culture”
The variable ties that bind
Seeing Indian, Being Indian
Imagined communities
Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War
Ethnic Community and Ethnic Boundaries in a "Sauce-Scented Neighborhood"1
Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation
Multi-ethnic public sphere andaccessible ethnic media
Another look at symbolic ethnicity
"The origins of "new assimilation theory
Flexible Citizenship
The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries
Reconsidering primordialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |