Anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia, 1996-99.9780824830571 Anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia Indonesia (ĭn'dənē`zhə), officially Republic of Indonesia, republic (2005 est. pop. 241,974,000), c.735,000 sq mi (1,903,650 sq km), SE Asia, in the Malay Archipelago. , 1996-99. Purdey, Jemma. U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2006 300 pages $28.00 Paperback Asian Studies Asian studies is a field in cultural studies that is concerned with the Asian peoples, their cultures and languages. Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in Asian traditional and industrial Association of Australia Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. publications series DS632 Purdey (political science, U. of Melbourne) investigates and textually tex·tu·al adj. Of, relating to, or conforming to a text. tex  tu·al·ly adv. reconstructs large-scale anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia
during the period of political transition that witnessed the fall of the
Suharto regime. Going beyond events in the capital of Jakarta by also
looking at cases in Medan and Solo, her narrative of the violence is
placed within the context of analysis of the organizational forms and
structures of the violence and the systems and networks that allowed it
to occur, as well as the way state and public discourse impacted events.
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