The Siauw Giap

The Siauw Giap (1922 in Malang, Dutch East Indies – 2002 in Leiden, Netherlands) was a Dutch sociologist and social historian of Chinese Indonesians.

Early life edit

In 1935 The became a student at the Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs school in Malang.^[1] He studied history and sociology at the University of Indonesia from 1946 to 1949, which was during the period of the Indonesian National Revolution.^[2]

In 1948 he received a grant to study in the Netherlands, and studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam from 1951 to 1961, and from 1954 onwards was research assistant to Wim Wertheim.^[2] During this time The married Wertheim's daughter Marijke Wertheim.^[3] He then became a research-assistant at Yale University in 1961-1962 and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 1963 to 1966.^[2] In 1963 The and Marijke Wertheim had a son, Wim Hay-ing.^[4]

In 1966 he became a research fellow at the Sinological Institute at the University of Leiden, where he remained until 1987.^[2]

The died in Leiden on February 20, 2002.

Het Indonesische vraagstuk en de Britse pers (1955)
Urbanisatieproblemen in Indonesië (1960)
Social change in Java, 1900-1930 (1962), with Wim Wertheim
The Samin and Samat movements in Java : two examples of peasant resistance (1969)
Rural unrest in West Kalimantan : the Chinese uprising in 1914 (1981)
Religious adaption: the Moslem Chinese in Indonesia : a preliminary view (1985)
Cina Muslim di Indonesia (1986), with Bahtiar Effendy and H Ridwan Saidi

^ "Te Malang". www.delpher.nl (in Dutch). De Indische courant. June 6, 1935. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Giap, The Siauw. "The Siauw Giap Papers". search.iisg.amsterdam. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
^ Breman, Jan. "W.F.Wertheim, een tegendraadse kroniekschrijver van maatschappelijke omwenteling" (PDF). aissr.uva.nl/. Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). Retrieved 23 June 2020.
^ "Familieberichten". www.delpher.nl (in Dutch). Algemeen Handelsblad. July 31, 1963. Retrieved 23 June 2020.