Illustrations; Preface; SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1. The Chinese Diasporic Subject As Stranger; SECTION TWO: LOOKING FOR HOME IN A FOREIGN LAND; 2. The Japanese Occupation and the Chineese Anti-Japanese Movement; 3. Post-War, Pre-New Order; SECTION THREE: THE NEW (DIS)ORDER: MAKING STRANGERS AT HOME; 4. Recovering a Place in History: Narratives of Violence; 5. The Vicissitudes of the Communist underground; SECTION FOUR: NEGOTIATING ESTRANGEMENT: BETWEEN COSMOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL; 6. The Phenomenology of Spirits or the Presencing of the Other; SECTION FIVE: WEST KALIMANTAN AS HOME
7. On the Politics and Poetics of HomeEpilogue: The Uncertainty of Strangers; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Focusing on the historical experiences of Chinese from West Kalimantan, Indonesia, whether in terms of migratory trajectories or ethnic and state violence, this book interrogates the role of history in the formation of the Chinese Diasporic subject
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index
