Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2024.2390539
Abstract: ABSTRACT Medan is a port city in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A special case among colonial cities, it featured a large number of Chinese migrants –… read more here.
Keywords: east indies; dutch east; city; chinese diaspora ... See more keywords
The Sea Voyage as a Marriage Snare: Gender in Novels about the Passage between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (1869–1891)
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DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2018.1512255
Abstract: ABSTRACT Nineteenth century fiction about the sailing ships (around the Cape) that crossed the seas between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies between 1850 and 1890 are presented as micro colonies in the novels:… read more here.
Keywords: netherlands dutch; sea voyage; east indies; voyage marriage ... See more keywords
Leprosy and the Colonial Gaze: Comparing the Dutch West and East Indies, 1750–1950
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DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkz079
Abstract: Summary This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation became formal policy in Suriname, leprosy sufferers… read more here.
Keywords: colonial gaze; segregation; east indies; east ... See more keywords
Sugar and the City: The Contribution of Three Chinese-Indonesians to Architecture and Planning in the Dutch East Indies (1900–1942)
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DOI: 10.5334/ah.416
Abstract: Around 1900, the Dutch East Indies was a multicultural and international society populated by Indonesians, Europeans, British Indians, Arabs and Chinese. The Chinese, although one of the colony’s ethnic minorities, contributed considerably to its economic… read more here.
Keywords: three chinese; chinese indonesians; dutch east; east indies ... See more keywords