%0 Journal Article
%T Sajarah Cina A nineteenth-century apology in Javanese
%A Willem van der Molen
%J -
%D 2017
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v18i2.590
%X The sometimes precarious position of the Chinese in Indonesia has a long history. The (most probably) nineteenth-century author, Apdul Mutalip, advocated a more balanced view by pointing out some fundamental contributions the Chinese had made to the welfare of the Javanese; he also demonstrates that their presence in Java has a basis in law. Although seems like a poem in Javanese metre, his Sajarah Cina, written in Javanese, is remarkable not only for its subject matter but also for the way the material is presented, in a rhetoric unknown to exist in Javanese literature by most scholars
%K Chinese in Java
%K Javanese historiography
%K manuscripts.
%U http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/590