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This chapter highlights the part played by several figures among the 'enlightened Chinese' in finishing the double endeavor of inventing 'Chineseness' and attaining a 'civilized' status. Paradoxically, the reinvention of Chinese custom Amongst the peranakan was shaped not by Chinese language and script, but relatively via a lingua franca they all m