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From ‘Sons of the Yellow Emperor’ to ‘Children of Indonesian Soil’: Studying Peranakan Chinese based on the Batavia Kong Koan Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2003

Li Minghuan
Affiliation:
The Institute of Anthropology of Xiamen University in China. mfhuang@jingxian.xmu.edu.cn

Abstract

After making a comparative study of the Chinese Batavia Kong Koan archives between its earlier and later periods, this article discusses what was an apparently inevitable localisation of immigrants' identities, in the context of immigration, settlement and, in particular, intermarriage.

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Copyright
© 2003 The National University of Singapore

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