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Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942: Tin, Tobacco, Timber, and the Penal Sanction (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series)

By Gregor Benton

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2023
ISBN
3031050266, 9783031050268
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20021120 bytes)
Edition
1st ed. 2022
Pages
633\628
Time added
2024-02-01 17:33:05

Description

This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using fieldwork findings from the tin islands of Bangka and Belitung and the Deli plantations on Sumatra as well as archival materials in Dutch, Chinese, and other languages held in libraries in Java, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Leiden, this book presents cutting-edge research that sets out to contribute to the revising of our historical understanding of indenture.

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