Pernyaian Dalam Masyarakat Tionghoa: Refleksi Dalam Sastra Peranakan Tionghoa

This paper aims to see the dynamics of mind or worldview of Indonesian Chinese author on concubinage. The concubinage had become a habit or culture in the Indonesia colonial era. Both European and Indonesian Chinese people considered accepting this practices. Many Indonesian Chinese intellectual had different impression or opinion about this immoral practices. They wrote many books, e.g. literary works, about this corrupt attitude. Their ideas had given evidence about their intellectual history which based on mind. According to Dilthey, literary works can be considered as the objective mind. Based on pragmatic tradition, literary works result from the author’s action of thinking. Concubinage exercised by Indonesian Chinese had developed into a new worldview. It is influenced by the new paradigm which considers the family relationship and creating new social value.