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Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

Racializing Chineseness

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Authors:
  1. Chee Kiong Tong

    1. Dept. Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  • A comprehensive and comparative study of the Chinese in Southeast Asia
  • Richly textured empirical data on the Chinese in contemporary Southeast Asia
  • A rethinking of theories and approaches on identity and ethnic relations

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Racializing Chineseness

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 1-29

  3. Rethinking Assimilation and Chineseness in Thailand

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 31-55

  4. One Face, Many Masks: The Chinese in Singapore

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 57-82

  5. Sama Makan tak Sama Makan: The Chinese in Malaysia

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 83-110

  6. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Chinese in Indonesia

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 111-145

  7. Half-Chinese or Three-Quarters Chinese: The Chinese in Contemporary Burma

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 147-174

  8. A Love-Hate Relationship: The Chinese in Vietnam

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 175-200

  9. Hybridization and Chineseness in the Philippines

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 201-232

  10. Conclusion: Whither Chineseness

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 233-247

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 249-274
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About this book

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Chee Kiong Tong

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

  • Book Subtitle: Racializing Chineseness

  • Authors: Chee Kiong Tong

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8909-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8908-3Published: 01 October 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9518-1Published: 06 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8909-0Published: 03 August 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 274

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Migration, Demography

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