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The localized Chinese languages of Southeast Asia, most of which are endangered, provide rich illustrations of linguistic innovation, hybridity, and shared language history that are of great interest to scholars as well as the communities themselves.

Caroline Chia, Ph.D. (2016), is research fellow at National University of Singapore. She published her monograph Hokkien Theatre Across the Seas: A Sociocultural Study (Springer 2019). Her forthcoming publication is Forgotten Heritage: A Graphic Introduction of Traditional Chinese Puppet Forms in Singapore. Tom Hoogervorst, Ph.D. (2013), Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, is a researcher on Southeast Asian language history. His most recent monograph is Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911-1949 (Cornell, 2021).