Author: Felix
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Teochew counties
Historical Teochew prefecture or department was divided into eight counties. Hui Lai (惠來, Huilai) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/full-list-of-towns-villages-in-hui-lai-county-circa-1958 Jao Peng (饒平, Raoping) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/full-list-of-towns-villages-in-jao-peng-county-circa-1958 Hong Sung (豐順, Fengshun) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/full-list-of-towns-villages-in-hong-sung-county-circa-1958 Pho Leng (普寧, Puning) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/full-list-of-towns-villages-in-pho-leng-county-circa-1958 Teng Hai (澄海, Chenghai) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/full-list-of-towns-villages-in-theng-hai-county-circa-1958 Gek Yo (揭陽, Jieyang) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/full-list-of-towns-villages-in-gek-yor-county-circa-1958 Teo Yo (潮陽, Chaoyang) https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/teo-yor Teo An (潮安, Chao’an), or known as Hai Yor (海陽) before 1914…
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Law Ah Yok
Law Ah Yok or Law A Yok is a businessman, contractor who lived in Medan in 1900-1930s. Law Ah Yok is known in Medan as Sukaramai, China town in Medan, or Kampung Law Ah Yok. Little is known about Law Ah Yok. He developed Sukaramai as the residence area for poor Chinese in Medan since…
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Overseas Chinese in Xinglong
These 50 years, the returned Indonesian overseas Chinese in Xinglong have not only contributed to the economic construction of the motherland. It also preserves and inherits all Indonesian culture including Indonesian etiquette, Indonesian art song and dance culture, Indonesian costume culture and Indonesian food culture. These Indonesian cultures are completely rooted in the returned overseas Chinese . Under the guidance of Du Tianjiang and…
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Life in Overseas Chinese Farm
The Chinese Complex of Returned Indonesian Overseas ChineseZhuang Gongwu At first glance, you might think that the couple in the photo are foreigners. In fact, they are Chinese, but their identities are a bit special: they were born in Indonesia, grew up in Indonesia, and returned to China in the 1960s. They are Indonesian overseas…
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Life in Overseas Chinese Farm in Hainan
In the 1960s and 1960s, tens of thousands of Indonesian overseas Chinese were affected by the anti-Chinese anti-Chinese anti-Chinese wave set off by the right-wing forces in Indonesia, and they embarked on the road to return. Among them, several batches of more than 2,000 Indonesian returned overseas Chinese were assigned to Settled at Xinglong Overseas…
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Chinese Society in Medan from 1950 to 1960
Teacher Zhang Liukun, the author of an article, vividly introduces the conditions of the overseas Chinese society in Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s, and analyzes the reasons for the exclusion of Chinese in power in Indonesia. The author Zhang Liukun, a returned overseas Chinese from Aceh, returned to China in August 1960. He was…
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Medan municipality
The settlement of Europeans in the sixties of the last century on the place where now the city of Medan coincides with the time when attention was first devoted to it the question of decentralization in the Netherlands Indies. The Kampong Medan then still belonged to the area of the Residentie Riouw and Onderoboorigheid. In…
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Kota China on the banks of Deli
The posthumous works of Mr. Shalihong, a senior in the Indian Chinese literary world If someone asks whether there was a “China Town” in Medan hundreds of years ago, the answer may not be known, or it is just a rumor! In 1823 AD, there was a British archaeologist, John Anderson who visited the east…
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The history of Deli Tobacco and the blood and sweat of Chinese contract coolies
The posthumous works of Mr. Shalihong “In the 1863s, there were only about 1,000 villagers living in the “Old Wuhan Deli Labuhan Deli” area. Among them, there were nearly 100 Jining and non-indigenous people from India, while there were only 20 or 30 Chinese. “. This is the report described by the envoys dispatched by the…
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Early Chinese Schools in Medan
A brief introduction to the history of Sumatra Sumatra Island (Sumatra Island, referred to as Su Island) is the sixth largest island in the world, with an area of approximately 470,000 square kilometers (kilometers). According to archaeological findings, there are human remains on the island of Sumatra 13,000 years ago. Around the sixth century, during the Tang…
Stories from Deli 