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Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Hui Yew-Foong (review)

Studies of Indonesia are chock-full of superbly detailed local histories and insightful narratives on minorities. Those familiar with these works need not strain to match the names of scholars with the places or ethnic groups about which they have written. Often the two—regional history and minority studies—go hand-in-hand, as evidenced by the many works written about local Chinese communities. With Strangers at Home, a powerful account of the trials and tribulations of the Chinese communities of West Kalimantan, Hui Yew-Foong continues this rich tradition, melding regional history and an ethnic minority study in a way that recalls the best that Indonesian studies has to offer. At the same time, Hui breaks with a different tradition by contributing to a new and long overdue trend—the extensive use of Chinese-language materials in the study of Chinese communities, either at the national or local level. Beyond the violent and tragic history these communities have endured, Strangers at Home demonstrates with precision and alarming awareness the struggles these Chinese community members have experienced regarding their place in the making of their own history, and raises searing questions about ethnic identity, nationality, and nationalism that these communities have debated and deliberated, and which have torn them apart. This includes the Chinese community members’ confusion and instability of attachment to place as strangers from a distant homeland, China, while situated in the only home many have ever known, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.