Bibliograph

Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880-1942, Tin, Tobacco, Timber, and the Penal Sanction, by Gregor Benton

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Label

Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880-1942, Tin, Tobacco, Timber, and the Penal Sanction, by Gregor Benton

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

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

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1345582276

Responsibility statement

by Gregor Benton

Series statement

Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series,, 2634-6281Springer eBooks.

Sub title

Tin, Tobacco, Timber, and the Penal Sanction

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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"

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