The Chinese of Indonesia and the Development of the Indonesian Language

Abstract

This article was written while I was a Fulbright scholar-in-residence attached to the 1990 Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at Cornell. I would like to thank the institute, particularly its director, John Wolff, for inviting me to present the paper at the symposium and, more generally, to attend the institute. Thanks are also owed the United States Information Agency, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and the American-Indonesian Exchange Foundation for providing the Fulbright grant. Claudine Salmon and Jim Collins helped me shape many of the ideas in this paper, and John Wolff gave extensive and incisive comments on the first draft; to them goes my sincere gratitude. Of course, I alone am responsible for what I have written.