Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia - Hardcoverby L. Ayu Saraswati (Author), David P. Chandler (Editor), Rita Smith Kipp (Editor) In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime