Teh dan Pengkhianat

Thirteen stories set in the Dutch East Indies, many seen through Dutch or mixed-blood eyes, showing a history that is never simply black and white. A gentleman militiaman refuses to join the massacre of the people of Banda, where hired Japanese samurai fight beside the troops. A globe unsettles clergymen who insist the earth is flat. A white woman sets out to meet Rohana Kudus, the Minangkabau pioneer of women's education and journalism. Orphans from Batavia are shipped to Bali carrying smallpox vaccine in their own bodies to halt an epidemic. And in the title story, Chinese labourers revolt over withheld wages and cruel punishments, and the colonial government calls on a former general of Diponegoro to put them down.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

164 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Indonesia

First published

2019 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia

ISBN

9786024811372 (original)