DETAILS, FICTION AND CAIR33

Details, Fiction and Cair33

This chapter highlights the position played by quite a few figures Amongst the 'enlightened Chinese' in finishing the double endeavor of inventing 'Chineseness' and attaining a 'civilized' status. Paradoxically, the reinvention of Chinese tradition Amongst the peranakan was shaped not by Chinese language and script, but relatively via a lingua fran

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