{"product_id":"strangers-in-the-family-guo-quan-seng-9781501772504","title":"Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrangers in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816-1942). \u003c\/b\u003eAt the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the colonial legal, moral, and sexual conditions of urban Java. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeparting from male-centered narratives of Ooverseas Chinese communities, \u003ci\u003eStrangers in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e tells the history of community- formation from the perspective of women who were subordinate to, and alienated from, full Chinese selfhood. From native concubines and mothers, creole Chinese daughters, and wives and matriarchs, to the first generation of colonial-educated feminists, Seng showcases women's moral agency as they negotiated, manipulated, and debated men in positions of authority over their rights in marriage formation and dissolution. In dialogue with critical studies of colonial Eurasian intimacies, this book explores Asian-centered inter-ethnic patterns of intimate encounters. It shows how contestations over women's place in marriage and in society were formative of a Chinese racial identity in colonial Indonesia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guo-Quan Seng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501772503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501772504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southeast Asia Program Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Guo-Quan Seng","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44201825173759,"sku":"9781501772504","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8a7a6e0-7727-471f-b46b-7e05d73afdff.jpg?v=1691491633","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strangers-in-the-family-guo-quan-seng-9781501772504","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}