Shifting Alliances in Late Colonial Indonesia: Tionghoa Peranakan Pre-war Novels

印尼土生華人（本地出生的華人）咸被認爲是謹慎的忠誠。大量的研究假說指出，種族騷亂經常導致印尼土生華人受欺。通過對文本的分析，尤其是1903年至1910年間所出版有關荷蘭東印度戰前不同忠誠度的小說，本論文揭櫫這些印尼土生華人所做的決定主要是爲了他們的未來及其認同政治。從中國、荷蘭到印尼，既有的歷史和環境因素扮演重要的角色，但抓住不可靠且殘酷的歷史顯然不是一個好的選擇，正如選擇撤回荷蘭亦是不可行。雖然印尼土生華人最終因投靠經濟而向印尼當局表達其忠誠度，小說所展現的移民背景卻表達他們對中國和荷蘭帝國主義的幻滅。

關鍵字

印尼土生華人；小說；荷蘭殖民地；荷蘭東印度

並列摘要

The loyalties of the Tionghoa peranakan (local-born Chinese) in Indonesia has often been considered circumspect. It has been the hypothesis of much research on the reasons for the racial riots that often resulted in the victimisation of the Tionghoa peranakan. This article offers a glimpse of their various loyalties through an analysis of novels that are still available and were written by the Tionghoa peranakan between 1903 and 1910, the pre-war period of the Dutch East Indies. These novels reveal some of the reasons for the Tionghoa peranakan's decisions on their future and Indonesian identity. Factors both historical and pertaining to a migrant milieu played a part in changing their point of reference from China and the Netherlands, to Indonesia. Clinging onto a past that was unreliable and cruel was not a choice just as gravitating towards a retreating Dutch was not feasible. While it appears that the Tionghoa peranakan eventually cast their loyalty with Indonesia for economic reasons, the novels show that their migrant background had resulted in disillusionment with both China and the Dutch imperialists.

並列關鍵字

Tionghoa peranakan ； novels ； Dutch colonial ； East Indies

參考文獻

Ahmat, Adam(1995).The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness, 1855-1913.New York:Cornell University South East Asia Program.

Google Scholar

Ali, A. Wahab(1984).Contact with the West: A Comparative Study on the Role of the Printing Press on the Emergence of the Novel in Modern Literature of Indonesia And Malaysia.Sari.2(2),141-80.