Indonesian Notebook

Indonesian Notebook
Author: Brian Russell Roberts
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822374641

While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters, as well as a newly recovered lecture by Wright, previously published only in Indonesian. Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher introduce and contextualize these documents with extensive background information and analysis, showcasing the heterogeneity of postcolonial modernity and underscoring the need to consider non-English language perspectives in transnational cultural exchanges. This collection of primary sources and scholarly histories is a crucial companion volume to Wright'sThe Color Curtain.

亚太研究论丛(第十四辑)

亚太研究论丛(第十四辑)
Author: 北京大学亚洲太平洋研究院编
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2021-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

本书设有“东北亚研究”“东南亚研究”“南亚研究”“中亚研究”等六个栏目,收录了《大国与朝鲜半岛的互动:两次朝核危机与六方会谈的再审视》《明清王朝交替期汉族移居朝鲜半岛地区问题研究》《当前中国与东南亚人文交流的态势与发展建议》《印度文明与当代世界》《“丝绸之路经济带”在哈萨克斯坦的进展及挑战》等文章。

The Color Curtain

The Color Curtain
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780878057481

The expatriate, one of America's greatest black writers, giving a bold assessment of the world's outlook on race, a report of the Bandung Conference of 1955.

All That Is Gone

All That Is Gone
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2005-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143034464

Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author’s own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young soldier who witnesses the savage beating of a man accused of being a spy. Though violence and brutality pervade these tales, there is present throughout a profound sense of compassion—an extraordinary combination of despair and hope that gives All That Is Gone rare power and beauty.

Engineers of Happy Land

Engineers of Happy Land
Author: Rudolf Mrázek
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691186936

Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think about things, Rudolf Mrázek invents an original way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature. The central chapters comprise vignettes and take up, in turn, transportation (from shoes to road-building to motorcycle clubs), architecture (from prison construction to home air-conditioning), optical technologies (from photography to fingerprinting), clothing and fashion, and the introduction of radio and radio stations. The text clusters around a group of fascinating recurring characters representing colonialism, nationalism, and the awkward, inevitable presence of the European cultural, intellectual, and political avant-garde: Tillema, the pharmacist-author of Kromoblanda; the explorer/engineer IJzerman; the "Javanese princess" Kartina; the Indonesia nationalist journalist Mas Marco; the Dutch novelist Couperus; the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer; and Dutch left-wing liberal Wim Wertheim and his wife. In colonial Indies, as elsewhere, people employed what Proust called "remembering" and what Heidegger called "thinging" to sense and make sense of the world. In using this observation to approach Indonesian society, Mrázek captures that society off balance, allowing us to see it in unfamiliar positions. The result is a singular work with surprises for readers throughout the social sciences, not least those interested in Southeast Asia or colonialism more broadly.

The King, the Witch, and the Priest

The King, the Witch, and the Priest
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9799589835

"Centuries ago, there was, in the eastern part of the island of Java, a kingdom by the name of Daha..." So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a fable with contemporary allure that is based on the story of Calon Arang, a Javanese legend dating from the twelfth century. As tradition tells it, Calon Arang was a powerful witch from the village of Girah who had a beautiful daughter named Ratna Manggali who could find no husband. No man would have her for fear of her mother. Calon Arang became so angered by her daughter's plight that she spread pestilence throughout the kingdom. To deal with the problem, King Erlangga ordered his most respected priest, Empu Baradah, to get rid of Calon Arang. This proved to be no easy task as Calon Arang owned a book containing all the secrets of sorcery. This ancient tale, as retold by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, exhibits a remarkable relevance to contemporary life with timeless lessons such as the triumph of good over evil and the ever-possible eternal salvation of one's soul. Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006) is Indonesia's most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages. A recipient of many major international awards, he was most recently awarded the Grand Prize in the 2000 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Willem Samuels is a long-time resident of Jakarta and has translated several of Pramoedya's works including The Fugitive, The Mute's Soliloquy, The Girl From the Coast and All That is Gone.

Tales from Djakarta

Tales from Djakarta
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000
Genre: Indonesian fiction
ISBN: 9799589819

Tales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen short stories written between 1948 and 1956 - a period of bitter transition from the revolutionary era to the beginnings of military rule in Indonesia. These stories not only give us a taste of Pramoedya's earlier writings, but also lead us on a tragic tour through mid-century Jakarta with her downtrodden residents as our guides.