The archives of the Kong Koan of Batavia / Edited by Leonard Blussé and Chen Menghong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blussé, Leonard, 1946-

Chen, Menghong, 1967-

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; vol. 59.

Sinica Leidensia ; vol. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Indonesia--Jakarta--History.

Chinese.

History.

Jakarta (Indonesia)--History.

Indonesia--Jakarta.

Physical Description:

viii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Summary:

The first study of the archive of the Kong Koan, the only relatively complete archive of a "diaspora" Chinese urban community in Southeast Asia, offering many new insights into Overseas Chinese life between 1780-1965.

Contents:

One Hundred Weddings and Many More Funerals A Year: Chinese Civil Society in Batavia at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Leonard Blusse 8

The Last Resort: Sino-Dutch Marital Relations Appearing before the Chinese Council in Early 19th Century Batavia / Yuan Bingling 29

The Role of the Go-Between in Chinese Marriages in Batavia / Myra Sidharta 46

Between the Chinese Tradition and Dutch Colonial System: Chinese Marriages in Batavia in the Nineteenth Century / Chen Menghong 59

The Marriage Market for Chinese Girls in Batavia: Some Explorations into its Territorial Boundaries / Hans Gooszen 69

A Portrait of Batavia's Chinese Society Based on the Tandjoeng Cemetery Archives / Li Minghuan 80

The Kong Koan In Crisis: A Case Study of the Malay Minutes of 1918-1921 / Giok Bwee Hesseling-Tjan 106

Qiaoxiang and Emigrant Communities: Some Comparative Questions / Philip A. Kuhn 125

Appendix The Malay Minutes of the Meetings of the Kong Koan Council / Dick Van Der Meij 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-156) and index.

ISBN:

9004131574

OCLC:

51944566