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The Kwee Family of Ciledug: Family, Status, and Modernity in Colonial Java Visualising the Private Life of the Peranakan Chinese Sugar Elite

Door Peter Post e.a.

Categorie
Indonesië & Nederlands Indië
Boeknummer
#391061-XP2
Titel
The Kwee Family of Ciledug: Family, Status, and Modernity in Colonial Java Visualising the Private Life of the Peranakan Chinese Sugar Elite
Auteur
Post, Peter & May Ling Thio
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
University of Washington Press
Jaar van uitgave
2019
ISBN10
946022492X
ISBN13
9789460224928
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This book is based upon a unique private collection of photographs and home movies of one Peranakan Chinese elite family, the Kwee family from Ciledug, owners of the sugar factory Djatipiring. It aims to bring the private lives of the modern Peranakan Chinese elite in colonial Java to the fore and asks to what extent ideas about progress, development and 'the modern' have affected their world-view and life-styles. This wonderful collection makes it possible to go beyond the public eye and get an inside glimpse into the changing world of a wealthy Peranakan Chinese family as it moved forward in the modernizing landscape of Java. The existing Western images and corresponding perspectives focus mainly on the nexus between the Westerners and the native population, sharing one common theme: non... (Lees verder)e of them visualized the Chinese as 'carriers of modernity' or as 'agents of change'. Such a representation apparently did not fit the public consciousness and general research paradigms in which change, progress and modernity were mainly attributed to Western presence in the region. The Kwee family photo albums give the opportunity to redress the balance, thereby offering a new perspective on the social dynamics of late-colonial Java.
Pagina's
288
Conditie
Goed — Name and year on title page.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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