List of Tables

xi

Foreword

xiii

Preface

xix

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Introduction

1

Chapter 1: Mapping the Terrain of Identity,
Memory, and the Media

17

The Overseas Chinese and Their
Place in the World

18

The Context of Chinese Indonesians

22

Identity, Memory, and the Media:
The Case of Chinese Indonesians

37

Chapter 2: “Going Home”: The Dilemmas
of Native Ethnography

45

Qualitative Framework of Inquiry
and Native Ethnography

47

The Constructivist Paradigm

53

The Constructivist Research Design

55

Chapter 3: The Chinese Indonesians in
Suharto’s New Order: Heterogeneity,
Assimilation, and Culture

73

Chinese Indonesians: A Heterogeneous Community

75