Sixth International Conference of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies: Overseas Chinese in Contemporary Asia , 2015
The last couple of decades have witnessed the booming of Mandarin schools in Indonesian major urb... more The last couple of decades have witnessed the booming of Mandarin schools in Indonesian major urban settings especially amongst Chinese-Indonesian parents who were born after the ban of communism in 1966 in Indonesia. Young children aged 6 to 13 years old have been sent to modern Mandarin-based international schools to learn not only Indonesian subjects but, more importantly, Chinese and English. This cultural phenomenon in contemporary Indonesia has raised a question: Are we seeing the re-emergence of chineseness amongst Chinese-Indonesian, which is oriented toward the 'homeland' (mainland China), or is it based more on a cosmopolitan urban outlook which does not consider cultural boundaries as an essential part of their identity markers? We will try to address this issue based on a field research conducted in the largest and second largest cities on Java, the primary island of Indonesia. Concepts of chineseness and cosmopolitanism developed by Ien Ang and other Chinese diaspora scholars will be used as the main framework to discuss the issue. The aim is to argue that the kind of 'chineseness' constructed by contemporary Chinese-Indonesian tends to be less attached to the essentialist concept of 'recinicization' and leans more toward a more fluid idea of cosmopolitanism which, in turn, helps redefine nationalism in the Chinese-Indonesian context.
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures c... more The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow significantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacific have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.
Sixth International Conference of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies: Overseas Chinese in Contemporary Asia , 2015
The last couple of decades have witnessed the booming of Mandarin schools in Indonesian major urb... more The last couple of decades have witnessed the booming of Mandarin schools in Indonesian major urban settings especially amongst Chinese-Indonesian parents who were born after the ban of communism in 1966 in Indonesia. Young children aged 6 to 13 years old have been sent to modern Mandarin-based international schools to learn not only Indonesian subjects but, more importantly, Chinese and English. This cultural phenomenon in contemporary Indonesia has raised a question: Are we seeing the re-emergence of chineseness amongst Chinese-Indonesian, which is oriented toward the 'homeland' (mainland China), or is it based more on a cosmopolitan urban outlook which does not consider cultural boundaries as an essential part of their identity markers? We will try to address this issue based on a field research conducted in the largest and second largest cities on Java, the primary island of Indonesia. Concepts of chineseness and cosmopolitanism developed by Ien Ang and other Chinese diaspora scholars will be used as the main framework to discuss the issue. The aim is to argue that the kind of 'chineseness' constructed by contemporary Chinese-Indonesian tends to be less attached to the essentialist concept of 'recinicization' and leans more toward a more fluid idea of cosmopolitanism which, in turn, helps redefine nationalism in the Chinese-Indonesian context.
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures c... more The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow significantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacific have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.
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