Editor: Lee Guan Kin

Publisher: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Publishing year: 2006

Call number: DS523.4.C45D372

Description: This book describes the ethnic relations and nation building of ethnic Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

There are few aspects that being discussed in every each country.

1. Singapore
   • The split of the ethic Chinese and their separate  goals of nation-building: Contest for the establishment of Nanyang University.
   • Forms as ideology:  Representing the multicultural in Singapore Theater.
   • The transformation and readjustment of contemporary Chinese clan associations amidst the social changes in Singapore.
2. Malaysia
   • Spatial division and ethnic exclusion: A study of ethnic relations in Malaysia.
   • Chinese culture in Malaysia: Attitudes of the Chinese and Malay leaders.
   • Ethnicity and nation: Malaysia Chinese writers in the 20th century
3. Indonesia
   • Racial relations and nation building: A case study of the Indonesian Chinese.
   • Ethnic relations and state policies: The case of contemporary Indonesian Chinese.
   • The Indonesian Chinese and the ethnic issue: A case study of the social riots in the late new order (1994-1997)