Defiant memories in confronting the Chinese stereotype in Indonesia: the politics of memory of Souw Beng Kong

IF 0.9 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Asian Ethnicity Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI:10.1080/14631369.2021.1976613

Pi-Chun Chang

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study considers Batavia’s first Chinese captain, Souw Beng Kong (1580–1644) as an example of the memory politics of urban Chinese Indonesians in Jakarta. It explores how and why he has been remembered in the contemporary era. While the stereotype of Chinese Indonesians has its roots in the Dutch colonial period, this study takes the Dutch institution of the captain as a framework to examine what is remembered as a way to bind group members together in a shared community of memory. This study argues that remembering Souw represents an implicit but defiant response to a long-standing negative stereotype that the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are perennially alien outsiders.

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面对印尼华人刻板印象的反抗记忆:南港的记忆政治

摘要本研究以巴达维亚第一位华裔船长苏本孔（1580–1644）为例，探讨雅加达印尼华人城市记忆政治。它探讨了他是如何以及为什么在当代被人们记住的。虽然对印尼华人的刻板印象源于荷兰殖民时期，但本研究以荷兰船长制度为框架，考察了人们记忆中的一种方式，即将群体成员联系在一个共同的记忆共同体中。这项研究认为，记住苏代表着对长期以来的负面刻板印象的一种含蓄但挑衅的回应，即印尼的华人长期以来都是外来的外国人。

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Asian Ethnicity PHYSIOLOGY-

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2.80

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6.20%

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期刊介绍： In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.