A ‘New Newspaper’: Sin Po and the Voices of Progressive Chinese Indonesian Nationalists, 1910-1949

Abstract

This thesis examines the emergence and development of the Chinese Indonesian run newspaper Sin Po from 1910 to 1949 focusing on how it shaped political and social thinking and discourses in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. I argue that Sin Po played an essential role in creating a class and identity consciousness, encouraging organisation and solidarity and formulating new ideas and tactics for the Chinese community and at the same time sustaining and building a political movement for its readers. Throughout this thesis, I use different lenses to focus attention on the work the paper undertook to address key issues for the ethnic Chinese and promote particular causes. I show how Sin P..