East Timor

#67    Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of timor-Leste,  by Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen. 240 pp, (2019)
$26.00 paper; $37.00 cloth; $15.00 ebook

This book explores the diverse origins of the ethnic Chinese in Portuguese Timor - early Hokkien-speaking pioneers whose creole offspring engaged in trade both with and against the colonial state, Hakka-speaking agriculturalists from the Pearl River Delta and Meixian regions of Guangdong.  Drawing on Portuguese andn Chinese primary sources, the book traces the intersection of colonial state practices, Chinese associational forms, and republican ideals out of which emerged a distinct identity as Cina Timor - Chinese Timorese.
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