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Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942 - Gregor Benton

Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942

Tin, Tobacco, Timber, and the Penal Sanction

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Buch | Softcover
XXII, 611 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-05026-8 (ISBN)
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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.

lt;b>Gregor Benton is Emeritus Professor in Modern Chinese History at Cardiff University, Wales.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Setting.- 3. Indenture in Three Keys: Chinese, Indian, and Javanese.- 4. The Penal Sanction.- 5. Recruitment.- 6. Huagong Life and Labour Under the "Coolie System".

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Zusatzinfo XXII, 611 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 820 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte Chinese history • Colonialism • Global History • Indian history • javanese history • Pacific history • Postcolonialism
ISBN-10 3-031-05026-6 / 3031050266
ISBN-13 978-3-031-05026-8 / 9783031050268
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