{"id":119,"date":"2023-09-22T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-09-22T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:44:47","slug":"becoming-local-datuk-kong-beliefs-in-sarawak-east-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/2023\/09\/22\/becoming-local-datuk-kong-beliefs-in-sarawak-east-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Local: Datuk Kong beliefs in Sarawak, East Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nova-legacy-e-text nova-legacy-e-text--size-m nova-legacy-e-text--family-sans-serif nova-legacy-e-text--spacing-xxs nova-legacy-e-text--color-grey-600\">\n<ul class=\"nova-legacy-e-list nova-legacy-e-list--size-m nova-legacy-e-list--type-inline nova-legacy-e-list--spacing-none\">\n<li class=\"nova-legacy-e-list__item\">February 2022 \u00a0<a class=\"nova-legacy-e-link nova-legacy-e-link--color-inherit nova-legacy-e-link--theme-decorated research-detail-meta__journal-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/journal\/Indonesia-and-the-Malay-World-1469-8382?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6ImxvZ2luIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicHJldmlvdXNQYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ\">Indonesia and the Malay World<\/a> 50(1):1-21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-page-header__meta\">\n<div class=\"research-detail-meta\">\n<div class=\"nova-legacy-e-text nova-legacy-e-text--size-m nova-legacy-e-text--family-sans-serif nova-legacy-e-text--spacing-xxs nova-legacy-e-text--color-grey-600\">\n<ul class=\"nova-legacy-e-list nova-legacy-e-list--size-m nova-legacy-e-list--type-inline nova-legacy-e-list--spacing-none research-detail-meta__item-list\">\n<li class=\"nova-legacy-e-list__item\">DOI: <a class=\"nova-legacy-e-link nova-legacy-e-link--color-inherit nova-legacy-e-link--theme-decorated\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/13639811.2022.2018830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/13639811.2022.2018830<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nova-legacy-e-text nova-legacy-e-text--size-m nova-legacy-e-text--family-sans-serif nova-legacy-e-text--spacing-xxs nova-legacy-e-text--color-grey-700\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"nova-legacy-e-list nova-legacy-e-list--size-m nova-legacy-e-list--type-inline nova-legacy-e-list--spacing-xl\">\n<li class=\"nova-legacy-e-list__item\"><span role=\"status\"><a class=\"nova-legacy-e-link nova-legacy-e-link--color-inherit nova-legacy-e-link--theme-bare research-detail-author\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Elena-Chai?_sg%5B0%5D=m2sjNavW4HWPUQRn_5rYju_ktGC_-UGntljRf5aJbxFCpjXzPotgZTJJT1F2Vgpmky9f16A._VHPmynU_5g2T_U9XnI1bbjDNKbJfz3IDJdsrNw76FWYvnu9MvHNB9AgdjUnltKGBNvOa2tcz8vofLKtTtpM1A&amp;_sg%5B1%5D=0io2gfAiGuxxAP-Pl8ad8ndPOQIV-npD7m91CIlsogUmJaPKFC51OT-u8JMyvhZzBbst1c4.nx0sVv-uacfL20rVqhj6ziJv4DN5C6HLW5_tpeoqm62m8MHo-n7D_UpHWpaWqC_Qa8sovkOyfbnEqDdatuerqA&amp;_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6ImxvZ2luIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicHJldmlvdXNQYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"research-detail-author__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.rgstatic.net\/ii\/profile.image\/272727651123250-1442034747748_Q64\/Elena-Chai.jpg\" alt=\"Elena Chai\" \/>Elena Chai<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"nova-legacy-e-list__item\"><span role=\"status\"><a class=\"nova-legacy-e-link nova-legacy-e-link--color-inherit nova-legacy-e-link--theme-bare research-detail-author\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Monica-Janowski?_sg%5B0%5D=m2sjNavW4HWPUQRn_5rYju_ktGC_-UGntljRf5aJbxFCpjXzPotgZTJJT1F2Vgpmky9f16A._VHPmynU_5g2T_U9XnI1bbjDNKbJfz3IDJdsrNw76FWYvnu9MvHNB9AgdjUnltKGBNvOa2tcz8vofLKtTtpM1A&amp;_sg%5B1%5D=0io2gfAiGuxxAP-Pl8ad8ndPOQIV-npD7m91CIlsogUmJaPKFC51OT-u8JMyvhZzBbst1c4.nx0sVv-uacfL20rVqhj6ziJv4DN5C6HLW5_tpeoqm62m8MHo-n7D_UpHWpaWqC_Qa8sovkOyfbnEqDdatuerqA&amp;_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6ImxvZ2luIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicHJldmlvdXNQYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"research-detail-author__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.rgstatic.net\/ii\/profile.image\/319357970780171-1453152281739_Q64\/Monica-Janowski.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Janowski\" \/>Monica Janowski<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Datuk Kong (\u62ff\u7763\u516c) are shen (\u795e) \u2013 a Chinese term that can be glossed in English as \u2018deity\u2019 or \u2018spirit\u2019 depending on context. They have long been known to be venerated by Chinese in West Malaysia but have not been investigated until now in Sarawak, where they are of increasing importance, or in Kalimantan, where they appear to have been worshipped for much longer. In both West Malaysia and in Borneo Datuk Kong are closely associated with (a) the ethnic groups that were already living in the area before the Chinese arrived and (b) with the local landscape. In this article we explore the ways in which Datuk Kong beliefs have developed in Borneo and how, through the \u2018respect\u2019 (\u62dc) paid to these shen, the Chinese have integrated the beliefs that they brought originally from China into a belief system that remains distinctively Chinese but overlaps with the beliefs of ethnic groups with which they co-exist; and embedded this belief system in the local landscape and the spirits inhabiting that landscape.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2021ChaiandJanowski.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">2021ChaiandJanowski<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2022 \u00a0Indonesia and the Malay World 50(1):1-21 DOI: 10.1080\/13639811.2022.2018830 Elena Chai Monica Janowski Datuk Kong (\u62ff\u7763\u516c) are shen (\u795e) \u2013 a Chinese term that can be glossed in English as \u2018deity\u2019 or \u2018spirit\u2019 depending on context. They have long been known to be venerated by Chinese in West Malaysia but have not been investigated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/2023\/09\/22\/becoming-local-datuk-kong-beliefs-in-sarawak-east-malaysia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Becoming Local: Datuk Kong beliefs in Sarawak, East Malaysia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","pmpro-has-access"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enganntengsibu.org\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}