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Language Ungoverned : Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911-1949
Author
Title
Language Ungoverned : Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911-1949 / Tom G. Hoogervorst.
ISBN
9781501758256
Publication
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (264 p.) : 14 b&w halftones, 1 map
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Notes
In English.
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Summary
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations. As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1870s and 1940s, Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay as a language of the people.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 08, 2021
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
MAP
Introduction: A Prism into the Past
1. Connected Language Histories
2. On Good, Bad, and Ugly Malay
3. Printing, Pulp, and Popularity
4. Competing Expressions of Modernity
5. The Humoristic and the Invective
Epilogue: An Important Historical Monument
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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