ABSTRACT
Chinese diaspora's identities in their present countries of residence are shaped by the interconnectivity between the diaspora, the society, and the ruling government, which inevitably reinforces the processes of accommodation and adjustment in their attempt to survive and to exist through the processes of hybridity formation. The employment of the variation theory of comparative study provides wide opportunities to address the different experiences of Chinese-American and Chinese-Indonesian people as represented in the fictions written by Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Marga T., and Mira W. The printed novels as well as the stories become the portrayal of the development of the Chinese diaspora's hybrid identities in the United States and Indonesia. This paper argues for the plurality of the diaspora's hybridity as the results of the geopolitical varieties that contextualize their diverse experiences.
