Book Talk - Strangers in the Family
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:15 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- RG01
About this event
In Strangers in the Family, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816–1942).
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.
About the speaker
Seng Guo-Quan is a historian of Chinese societies in Southeast Asia, with a special interest in race, gender and sexuality structures in the region, and how they have been shaped through the forces of imperialism, nationalism and global capitalism. This is his first single-authored monograph. He is now working on a second book tentatively titled, “A Diaspora of Shopkeepers: Empire, Race and Chinese Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia (1870-1970s)”.
Contact
- Organiser: SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies
- Email: centres@soas.ac.uk
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