Significance of Novels
Kho Ping Ho's works mean a great deal for generations of Chinese descent growing up in Indonesia. During the Suharto's regime, teaching of Chinese languages, history and culture were banned. Kho Ping Ho's work became a last resort of Chinese Indonesians in salvaging any cultural identity and values they had left.
Within Indonesia, Kho Ping Ho's readership is uncomparable to the famous authors of similar genre from Taiwan and Hong Kong like Chin Yung and Ku Lung.
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