Abstract
The sometimes precarious position of the Chinese in Indonesia has a long history. The (most probably) nineteenth-century author, Apdul Mutalip, advocated a more balanced view by pointing out some fundamental contributions the Chinese had made to the welfare of the Javanese; he also demonstrates that their presence in Java has a basis in law. Although seems like a poem in Javanese metre, his Sajarah Cina, written in Javanese, is remarkable not only for its subject matter but also for the way the material is presented, in a rhetoric unknown to exist in Javanese literature by most scholars.
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van der Molen, Willem
(2017)
""Sajarah Cina"; A nineteenth-century apology in Javanese,"
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia: Vol. 18:
No.
2, Article 6.
DOI: 10.17510/wacana.v18i2.590
Available at:
https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol18/iss2/6
