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Author Hoogervorst, Tom, 1984- author.

Title Language ungoverned : Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, 1911-1949 / Tom G. Hoogervorst.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : South Asia Progam Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Connected Language Histories -- On Good, Bad, and Ugly Malay -- Printing, Pulp, and Popularity -- Competing Expressions of Modernity -- The Humoristic and The Invective
Summary "A language history of Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community (1911-1949), who adopted society's Malay vernacular and developed a vibrant print culture around this lingua franca. Due to their accessible and entertaining language, the Sino-Malay books, newspapers, and poems were also popular among other ethnic groups"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Popular literature -- Publishing -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Popular literature -- Publishing.
Indonesia.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Popular literature.
Popular literature -- Indonesia -- Chinese influences.
Malay literature -- Indonesia -- Chinese influences.
Malay literature.
Chinese -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese.
Printing -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Printing.
Language and culture -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Language and culture.
Literature and society -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and society.
Languages in contact -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Languages in contact.
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Hoogervorst, Tom, 1984- Language ungoverned Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501758225 (DLC) 2020046682 (OCoLC)1202224691
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