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"Getting By" - Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia (Hardcover)
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"Getting By" - Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia (Hardcover)
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How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what
ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In
"Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research
in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in
the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide an ethnographic and
historical account of the cultural politics of class conflict and
state formation among Malaysians of Chinese descent. Countering
triumphalist accounts of the capitalist Chinese diaspora in
Southeast Asia, Nonini shows that the Chinese of Penang (as
elsewhere) are riven by deep class divisions and that class issues
and identities are omnipresent in everyday life. Nor are the common
features of "Chinese culture" in Malaysia manifestations of some
unchanging cultural essence. Rather, his long immersion in the city
shows, they are the results of an interaction between
Chinese-Malaysian practices in daily life and the processes of
state formation-in particular, the ways in which Kuala Lumpur has
defined different categories of citizens. Nonini's ethnography is
based on semistructured interviews; participant observation of
events, informal gatherings, and meetings; a commercial census;
intensive reading of Chinese-language and English-language
newspapers; the study of local Chinese-language sources;
contemporary government archives; and numerous exchanges with
residents.
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