THE SMART TRICK OF CAIR33 THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

This chapter highlights the part performed by a number of figures One of the 'enlightened Chinese' in completing the double job of inventing 'Chineseness' and attaining a 'civilized' standing. Paradoxically, the reinvention of Chinese custom among the peranakan was formed not by Chinese language and script, but relatively through a lingua franca al