Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Charles Coppel: A Brief Biography x
5. Contributors xiii
6. Glossary xvi
7. Introduction: Researching the Margins 1
8. 1 Anti-Chinese Violence and Transitions in Indonesia: June 1998–October 1999 14
9. 2 Reconstituting the Ethnic Chinese in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Law, Racial Discrimination, and Reform 41
10. 3 Buddhism and Confucianism in Contemporary Indonesia: Recent Developments 77
11. 4 Portrait of the Chinese in Post-Soeharto Indonesia 95
12. 5 The Makam Juang Mandor Monument: Remembering and Distorting the History of the Chinese of West Kalimantan 105
13. 6 Confucianists and Revolutionaries in Surabaya (c1880–c1906) 130
14. 7 The Chinese and the Early Centuries of Conversion to Islam in Indonesia 148
15. The Agony of Love: A Study of Peranakan Chinese Courtship and Marriage 165
16. 9 Peranakan Chinese and Wayang in Java 185
17. Index 209