The Research Of Indonesia Medan Chinese's Livelihood Changes

The village of Metal is located on the outskirts of Medan,northern Sumatra Province,and is an immigrant village consisting of political refugees driven by the 9·30 Eliminate Chinese events in Aceh province in 1965.The incident caused nearly ten thousand people rely on small business as the main means of livelihood of the overseas Chinese families instantly go bankrupt,leave the hometown,living in different places.But the government to take any of its self-extinguishing attitude,so that the survival of overseas Chinese refugees face a great dilemma.At that time the government took the attitude of allowed them to fend for themselves.so the survival of overseas Chinese refugees was facing great difficulties.Centralized control period after 1965,in the face of survival crisis,Refugees began to spontaneously organize themselves to self-help,began a four-year collective life.After 1970,the Chinese people in Metal had their own homes,and their means of livelihood also moved from concentration to dispersion.Metal overseas Chinese through the construction of a new network of social relations,to achieve the livelihoods of the way from collective production to free business transformation,from the family handicraft industry to the development of modern enterprises,and began to appear in emerging industries.In a short span of several decades,Metal Village has become a small town from the initial marshes,and the social roles of Metal overseas Chinese have also changed from the initial refugees to the hires and entrepreneurs.As the livelihood of the ever-changing,the interaction between ethnic groups is also increasing.Metal overseas Chinese accumulated external relationships from economic activity,to overcome the "immigrants" identity of the embarrassment,and gradually into the local Chinese society.At the same time,with the continuous expansion of the relationship network,interactive constantly strengthened,Metal overseas Chinese and the aborigines eventually reached the harmonious blend of the nation.In view of the special background of Metal overseas Chinese,tries to using the method of ethnography,Anthropology study the livelihood changes of Metal village,and on the basis of fieldwork,restore the village Chinese struggles in detail.Which makes up for the study of Chinese in the overseas Chinese only focus on the macro description of the details of the lack of detail.At the same time,focus on Metal overseas Chinese livelihood changes has some reference value to study the formation process of Chinese economic network,to analyze the nature of Chinese economic network and how to integrate Chinese into the mainstream society.