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The work traces how these urban intellectuals functioned as sources of both irritation and inspiration, promoting ideas of progress and freedom from late colonial rule through national revolution and independence after 1945. Oral interviews with elderly residents connect memories of colonial life, Japanese occupation, and post-1945 years to broader metropolitan history.","A CertAin Age  \n􀀗 􀀗 􀀗 􀀗 􀀗  \nA john hope frAnklin  \nCenter book  \nA CertAin Age 􀀗 􀀗 􀀗 􀀗 􀀗  \nColoniAl jAkArtA through the MeMories of its intelleCtuAls  \nrudolf Mrázek  \nduke university press  \nDurham and London  \n2010  \n© 2010 duke university press  \nAll rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan. Typeset in Monotype Fournier by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.  \nAn earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as “Bypasses and Flyovers:  \nApproaching the Metropolitan History of Indonesia,” Social History 29, no. 4 (2004): 425–43.  \nFor Ben Anderson  \n􀀗  \nContents  \n􀀗 􀀗 􀀗  \nprefACe: Promenades ......................... ix  \nTechnical Note .................................. xv  \none. Bypasses and Flyovers ................... 1  \ntwo. The Walls.................................. 25  \nthree. The Fences ............................. 73  \nfour. The Classroom......................... 125  \nfive. The Window ............................ 187  \npostsCript. Sometimes Voices ........... 235  \nNotes ............................................. 253  \nBibliography.................................... 293  \nIndex .............................................. 303  \nprefACe  \nPromenADes  \n􀀗 􀀗 􀀗  \nWe might ask: who would learn from this? Can someone  \nteach me that I see a tree?  \n—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour  \nThe people of this book with few exceptions are of a colonial and Indonesian urban elite of the twentieth century, which means a group to a lesser, larger, or overwhelming extent touched by and induced into the Western culture of imperial modernity (predominantly secular, among other things, which explains why so few devout Muslims appear in the book). The group in particular distinguishes itself by its possession of Dutch literacy. It never made up more than about 0.5 percent of the colony’s population,1 which, however, amounts to as many as three hundred thousand men and women, living in towns and cities as a general rule. Since the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era and national revolution and deep into independence after 1945, the urban intellectuals became a major irritant and inspiration, injecting their sense of the new, of progress and of freedom, into the colonial and postcolonial society at large.  \n􀀗 􀀗 􀀗  \nBetween 1990 and 2000, on every university vacation, and once in 1995 on a six-month visit, I interviewed elderly people of Indonesia, mainly in Jakarta (formerly Batavia), the Indonesian metropolis, about their youth and childhood. The old people lived through the colonial period, the Japanese occupation during the Second WorldWar, and the years of independent Indonesia after 1945. I expected that I would be told about the transition to modernity,","cbCaivlETNcEikwD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivlETNcEikwD","pdf",2299350,4,1,328,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Preface: Promenades\n## Technical Note\n## one. Bypasses and Flyovers\n## two. The Walls\n## three. 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