Universitas Indonesia Conferences, International Conference on Chinese Indonesian Studies

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Research on the Relevance of the Culture of Town-god Worship and the Transnational Chinese Community
Chen Tong

Last modified: 2017-09-28

Abstract


The dispersed Chinese community could be the beneficiary as well as the facilitator under the mutually benefit pattern between China and the rest of the world. The rapid development of internet quickly adapts to the characteristics of discretization of the dispersed Chinese community, which complements each other simultaneously. The structure of location and organization of Chinese community has been more discrete, and the development of community is no longer limited by time and space. The existence of the cultural circle of Town-god worship in Southeast Asia itself shows a trend of development of discretization and connection of the dispersed Chinese community. Therefore, the discussion about worship culture system and its organizational development has typical significance to the dispersed Chinese community. In mainland China, both Chinese who work and exchange cultures all around the world and Chinese communities are usually called the Transnational Chinese Community. Therefore, the Transnational Chinese Community is used to refer to the dispersed Chinese community in this paper.