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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis creative project is an autobiographical novel that tells the story of Hero Widjaja, a
Chinese Indonesian man who embarks on his journey to Hong Kong, Macau, and
Mainland China to find his true identity. Having raised in a pretty conservative Chinese
Indonesian family background, Hero learns that there is an unfinished business in finding
his identity as a Chinese Indonesian man. His parents unconsciously indoctrinate him to
identify himself just like Mainland Chinese people. On the other hand, Hero surely does
not have Chinese citizenship or even speak Mandarin. One morning, his father offers him
a free trip to visit his relatives in Mainland China. Keeping the desire to find his true
identity, Hero decides to take the trip and prove it himself whether he is eligible to regard
himself as Chinese. I decide to use Erikson’s stages of psycho-social development to
identify Hero’s identity crisis. This theory aims to help me create problems and
believable characterization for my characters to represent the identity crisis that Chinese
Indonesian people may have in real life. As for the genre, I decide to choose biographical
novel as the genre of my creative work. I mix my personal family experiences as a
Chinese Indonesian man with fictional elements so that I can still catch my readers’
attention from the beginning to the end.