In the Tortuous Shadows of Ethnic Policies
Two Case Studies of Chinese Cultural Heritage in Indonesia and Malaysia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22351918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriella Voss (0000-0002-4906-5871, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-176 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2521-702X • E-ISSN: 2521-7038 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/vjeas-2021-0005 |
| OpenAlex | W3192880422 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Concurrent with the inception of the nation states of Indonesia and Malaysia in the middle of the twentieth century, ethnic policies were put into practice to destroy the Chinese cultural heritage that had hitherto been regarded as a vital part of the region’s heterogeneous cultural landscapes. Chinese language, organisations, and religious practices were banned, and architecture and artefacts with Chinese symbols or insignia either looted or destroyed. To what extent have these discriminatory agendas further influenced and shaped contemporary Chinese cultural heritage discourse? To answer this question this article starts with an introduction to the anti-Chinese agenda from Independence onwards, which is followed by two case studies from the field of cultural heritage: the organisation Boen Hian Tong in Semarang on Java in Indonesia, and the NGO Penang Heritage Trust in Malaysia. The research is based on fieldwork carried out in Indonesia and Malaysia in 2014–2015
Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Ethnic group · Field research · Indonesian · Linguistics · Nation-building · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Public Administration in Southeast Asia
Resistance, Engagement, and Heritage Conservation by Voluntary Sector
Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia
Explaining Anti-Chinese Riots in Late 20th Century Indonesia
Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia
Chinese Educationalists in Malaysia
Chinese Politics in Post-Suharto's Indonesia. Beyond the Ethnic Approach
Activism in Southeast Asian Ethnomusicology
Intimate Interactions
The Social and Cultural Dimensions of the Role of Ethnic Chinese in Indonesian Society
A Theory of Middleman Minorities
Acculturation and Assimilation
The Chinese of Semarang
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |