Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 1st, 2003
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 a thousand years of immigration, by the nineteenth century the ethnic Chinese in the Netherlands East Indies demonstrated a considerable degree of diversity. (1) More than anything else, those third-, fourth-, fifth-generation or more Sino-East Indians were characterised as a distinct group kno...
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