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Tjerita Oeij Se
''Tjerita "Oeij-se": Jaitoe Satoe Tjerita jang Amat Endah dan Loetjoe, jang Betoel Soedah Kedjadian di Djawa Tengah'' (better known under the abbreviated name ''Tjerita Oeij Se''; also ''See'') is a 1903 Malay-language novel by the Chinese Indonesians, ethnic Chinese writer Thio Tjin Boen. It details the rise of a Chinese businessman who becomes rich after finding a kite made of paper money in a village, who then uses dishonesty to advance his personal wealth before disowning his daughter after she converts to Islam and marries a Javanese people, Javanese man. Written in a journalistic style and derived from actual events, ''Tjerita Oeij Se'' was inspired by the life of the tobacco tycoon Oey Thai Lo. The novel has been read as a condemnation of interethnic marriages between Chinese Indonesians, ethnic Chinese women and non-Chinese men as well as reinforcement (or, alternatively, critique) of traditional Chinese values. The novel was quickly adapted to stage and spawned both a rete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thio Tjin Boen
Thio Tjin Boen (; 1885–1940) was a Chinese-Indonesian writer of Malay-language fiction and a journalist. Biography Born in Pekalongan, Central Java, in 1885, Thio is recorded as working at various newspapers in the early 1900s. This included ''Taman Sari'', ''Warna Warta'', and Perniagaan (the latter from 1927 to 1929). In this position Thio held a variety of roles, including editor, translator, and writer. He is also known to have established his own publication, ''Asia'', but the newspaper was not long lived. He is best remembered as a novelist. His first novel, '' Tjerita Oeij Se'', was published in 1903 and followed a young trader named Oeij Se who, after acquiring extensive wealth, was corrupted by it. The novel had a distinctly anti-Islamic overtone, as Oeij Se's punishment for his transgressions is that his daughter converts to Islam (the religion of the Javanese majority). In the novel, Indonesian scholar of literature Jakob Sumardjo finds a condemnation of ethnic Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |