In recent years, there has been a growing presence of the book on the particular Chinese community in a specific region or city in Indonesia. These books provide the local Chinese’s historical, cultural, and social aspects. However, the discussion of this trend is overlooked by scholars. This study reviewed the books on local Chinese Indonesians in the post-reformasi from a localism perspective. This study finds that the growing trend of the book on local Chinese represents localism in a cultural dimension, and it occurs in time with the implementation of decentralization policy in Indonesia. At the same time, it put the local element in the culture and identity of Chinese Indonesian, reviving the discussion of their local history and developing the geographical element in the concept of Peranakan Chinese. Moreover, exploring the local Chinese communities may enhance the ethnic relations since they share a common local identity centered on geographical location, and the books also explore the local wisdom that maintained harmonious relations between them for years.