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To Remain Myself - The History of Onghokham (Paperback)
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To Remain Myself - The History of Onghokham (Paperback)
Series: Asian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series
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This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual,
an Indonesian historian and public intellectual who was both a
public figure and a multi-minority member, being Dutch-educated,
Indonesian Chinese, gay, alcoholic, irreligious and hedonist, in a
conservative society. This biography delves into its subject's
interior life: the fears, doubts, confusions; the issues of
sexuality, the mental breakdown, the jailing, the later success,
joys and celebrity, as a historian, public intellectual and famous
cook. This biography breaks out of the Indonesian Chinese category.
It is primarily an Indonesian story. In its early chapters this
biography reveals much about the 'sugar king' Chinese aristocracy
of Indonesia, from the inside. In its later chapters this book
shows much about the development of Indonesians writing their own
post-colonial history, and the intellectual influences on this
writing. Onghokham was a senior public intellectual with over 300
writings over 50 years, containing original insights into many
varied Indonesian topics, including colonial history and its
effects on modern politics and society; the Indonesian Chinese;
'outsiders' -- marginal people; the jago or brigand as people's
champion; sexuality in Indonesia past and present; food; the
Oedipus complex; painting; traditional Javanese beliefs from the
palace to the peasant.
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