Studying Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia
Author: Charles A. Coppel
Publisher: Singapore Society of Asian Studies, Singapore 2002, 410 pages + ix

TWO things need to be taken into consideration in order to understand this book. First, the decision of the author, Charles Coppel, to leave the legal profession as a barrister in the late 1960s to concentrate on being a historian, specializing in the history of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. Sec