Table of Contents

Introduction: Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: A Critical Review 1. The Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan School: A Transborder Project of Modernity in Batavia, c.1900s 2. The Nanyang Diasporic Imaginary: Chinese School Teachers in a Transborder Setting in the Dutch East Indies 3. Chineseness, Belonging and Cosmopolitan Subjectivities in Post-Suharto Independent Films 4. Materializing Racial Formation: the Social Lives of Confiscated Chinese Properties in North Sumatra 5. The Translocal Subject between China and Indonesia: The Case of the Pemangkat Chinese of West Kalimantan 6. The Chinese of Karimun: Citizenship and Belonging at Indonesia’s Margins 7. The Spirit-mediums of Singkawang: Performing Peoplehood of West Kalimantan 8. "By Race, I am Chinese; and by Grace, I am Christian:" Negotiating Chineseness and Christianity in Indonesia 9. Expressing Chineseness, Marketing Islam: Hybrid Performance of Chinese Muslim Preachers 10. A Controversy Surrounding Chinese-Indonesian Muslims’ Practice of Imlek Salat in Central Java

About the Author

Siew-Min Sai is Assistant Professor in the History Department, National University of Singapore Chang-Yau Hoon is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Singapore Management University