Name: Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community
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Author: Jean Debernardi
ISBN: 9780804744867

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Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community

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Physical Book

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Author

Jean Debernardi

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

318

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0804744866

ISBN13

9780804744867

Edition No.

Synopsis "Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community "

In what is today Malaysia, the British established George Town on Penang Island in 1786, and encouraged Chinese merchants and laborers to migrate to this vibrant trading port. In the multicultural urban settlement that developed, the Chinese immigrants organized their social life through community temples like the Guanyin Temple (Kong Hok Palace) and their secret sworn brotherhoods. These community associations assumed exceptional importance precisely because they were a means to establish a social presence for the Chinese immigrants, to organize their social life, and to display their economic prowess. The Confucian "cult of memory" also took on new meanings in the early twentieth century as a form of racial pride. In twentieth-century Penang, religious practices and events continued to draw the boundaries of belonging in the idiom of the sacred. Part I of Rites of Belonging focuses on the conjuncture between Chinese and British in colonial Penang. The author closely analyzes the 1857 Guanyin Temple Riots and conflicts leading to the suppression of the Chinese sworn brotherhoods. Part II investigates the conjuncture between Chinese and Malays in contemporary Malaysia, and the revitalization in the 1970s and 1980s of Chinese popular religious culture.

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