Sunday, February 27, 2011

Tionghoa di Zaman yang Bergerak (Chinese in the Mobile Age)

Synonyms And Synonyms

Synonyms And Synonyms
Title: Challenging the Phoenix (Only a Girl)
Authors: Lian Gouw
Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta
Year: Prints I, 2010
Thickness: viii + 385 pages

The story in this novel reminds me of a book "Moving day" written by Japanese author, Takashi Siraishi. During the early independence movement, the Chinese are looking for independence as the identity of the bumiputera population are equally excited to obtain civil rights of the Dutch colonial rulers.
 
Hybrid Chinese do not get along with the bumiputera because he felt the nation later today to replace the Dutch colonized Indonesia after the political revolution in China from Beijing to change the imperial state into the republic. Bumiputera people stigmatized as the maid, uncivilized and poor by the Hybrid Chinese.
 
Portraits like that recorded in the faction's work titled Challenging Phoenix Lian Goum this. The story begins from family rejection Caroline Ong, against his choice named Po Han. In fact, when it was 30 years of age should no longer need permission to marry from his guardian. After all this, the wedding still took place and they live in the same house degan Ocho, Po Han grandmother who likes to get drunk.
Po Han many check-choke with Caroline. For the sake of preserving the integrity of the household, she returned to her mother, Nanna.
 
On Nanna's house, Caroline and her daughter, Jenny, are free to choose the Dutch tradition as a way of life, but still respect the Chinese culture. Netherlands, for Caroline's family is a promising future state. That's what appears to be inherited by Jenny at a later date.
 
At the school, Jenny felt inner conflict is quite basic. He was rarely able to socialize with friends. In addition to mastery of Indonesian Language is not good, he also opposed the idea because the Sukarno be insulted about intermarriage and assimilation. It was then, Jenny feel Indonesia is not his country. The notion of Indonesia as a nation of servants and peasants also came from Caroline and Nanna.
 
Novels set in the history of revolution and the rise of Indonesian nationalism is interesting because the Dutch colonization store the archive with its ethical policy. Caroline, Nanna and Jenny regard Indonesia as his country was not given the Dutch political strategy in maintaining the residence at that time with reinforcement division.

The more hostile, the Netherlands increasingly not torn. Politics passenstelsel and wijkenstelsel is evidence of attempts to divide the bumiputera Dutch and Chinese. It was then that the Chinese actually faced with difficult choices about state ownership, between Indonesia, the Netherlands or China, countries of origin of his ancestors.
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