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Pt. 1: Population and society Pt. 2: Politics, identity and education Pt. 3: Culture and entrepreneurship Pt. 4: Religion Pt. 5: Literature

Nationalism and globalization are two major contradicting forces in the world today. The roles that these two forces play and the impact of globalization on countries differ. Both Western and Asian "nation-states" have faced the challenge of globalization in recent decades, and the challenge has become more intense since the 1990s. The decline of communism and socialism as ideologies, and the decreasing importance of national boundaries for capital, companies and even labour, have had profoun

This study attempts to analyse indigenous Indonesian perceptions of the Chinese minority and to ask how these perceptions, modified by economic and political constraints, manifest themselves in government policies towards this "trading minority" and towards China. It covers the period from 1949, when Indonesia became a sovereign state, to 1975 when the New Order Government abolished Special National Schools for the Chinese. (ISEAS/DÜI)