The word "Peranakan" is Malay for someone who is "local born" of mixed ancestry, but it is now almost exclusively used to refer to the Chinese community. Chinese Peranakan communities emerged in Java (and to a lesser extent...

Peranakan, Baba-Nyonya (峇峇娘惹) and Straits Chinese (土生華人; named after the Straits Settlements) are terms used for the descendants of the very early Chinese immigrants to the Nusantara region, including both the British Straits Settlements...

After making a comparative study of the Chinese Batavia Kong Koan archives between its earlier and later periods, this article discusses what was an apparently inevitable localisation of immigrants' identities, in the context of immigration, settlement and, in particular, intermarriage. After more than...

DS632 2005-347110 981-210-360-0 Peranakan Chinese politics in Java, 1917-1942. Suryadinata, Leo. (Ethnic studies) Marshall Cavendish Academic, [c]2005 188 p. $19.00 (pa) First published in 1976 by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, this study of...