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Competition, Patriotism and Collaboration: The Chinese Businessmen of Yogyakarta between the 1930s and 1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2002

Didi Kwartanada
Affiliation:
Kebon Tugu Jt.3/451 Yogyakarta 55232, Indonesia. kwartanada@yahoo.com.

Abstract

During the turbulent years between the 1930s and the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945, Chinese businessmen in Yogyakarta confronted three major issues: competition against the emerging Indonesian entrepreneurs and Japanese business expatriates; patriotism towards their ancestral land China in fighting against Japanese aggression; and collaboration with the new regime run by their former enemy, the Japanese. During this period newly arrived ‘totok’ Chinese achieved pre-eminence over the well-established ‘peranakan’ community.

Type
Articles
Copyright
© 2002 The National University of Singapore

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