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GA-01332 1988-02-19 NRC Handelsblad rel C

Oost is Oost en West is West (East is East and West is West)

East is East and West is West (Kousbroek)

Rudy Kousbroek's column 'Oost is Oost en West is West' in NRC Handelsblad (19 Feb 1988): an anecdote of a Minahasan surveyor in Maluku shocked by his atheism, with remarks on Indonesian attitudes to feminism and childlessness. Ends as the surveyor asks whether they are communists. No mention of Gerwani; background colo

GA-01333 1988-04-30 NRC Handelsblad rel C

De Chinees: Op schoolfeesten waren we gelijk, dat was modern (The Chinese: At school parties we were equal, that was modern)

The Chinese: at school parties we were equal, that was modern (Go Gien Tjwan)

Interview with Dr Go Gien Tjwan in NRC Handelsblad's 'Hun Indië' series (30 Apr 1988): memories of peranakan Chinese life in colonial Malang, racial hierarchy, schooling, Chinese revival in the 1930s and student politics at Batavia under Wertheim. Background on Chinese Indonesians; no Gerwani content.