Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia

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The Singapore Society of Asian Studies (SSAS) is a local academic association, which was established in 1982. Its aims are to promote research on Asian society and culture, focusing on the Southeast Asian region and the ethnic Chinese. It concentrates on organizing talks, seminars, and conferences as well as publishing books, monographs, and a journal Asian Culture (Yazhou Wenhua) in two languages: Chinese and English. Its objective is to contribute to the academic life in the city-state. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publications, an established academic press, has issued more than 1,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from within the region. ISEAS Publications works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. Reproduced from Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Ethnic Chinese, edited by Leo Suryadinata (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004). This version was obtained electronically direct from the publisher on condition that copyright is not infringed. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Individual articles are available at © 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Singapore First published in Singapore in 2004 by ISEAS Publications Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang, Singapore 119614 E-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg • Website: http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.© 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the editor and contributors and their interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the Institute or its supporters. ISEAS฀Library฀Cataloguing-in-Publication฀Data Ethnic relations and nation-building in Southeast Asia : the case of the ethnic Chinese / edited by Leo Suryadinata ; with an introduction by Wang Gungwu. Papers originally presented to the International Conference on Ethnic/Race Relations and Nation-Building in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia : the Case of Ethnic Chinese, organized by the Singapore Society of Asian Studies on 23 November 2002 at Mandarin Hotel, Singapore. 1. Asia, Southeastern—Ethnic relations—Congresses. 2. Chinese—Asia, Southeastern—Ethnic identity—Congresses. 3. Chinese—Singapore—Ethnic identity—Congresses. 4. Chinese—Indonesia—Ethnic identity—Congresses. 5. Chinese—Malaysia—Ethnic identity—Congresses. I. Suryadinata, Leo, 1941II . Singapore Society of Asian Studies. III. International Conference on Ethnic/Race Relations and Nation-Building in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia : the Case of Ethnic Chinese (2002 : Singapore) DS523.4 C5E842 2004 ISBN 981-230-170-4 (ISEAS soft cover edition) ISBN 981-230-182-8 (ISEAS hard cover edition) Printed in Singapore by Utopia Press Pte Ltd ...