Category: General
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Children’s souvenirs
Louis Couperus. 1911. Tell me, I say; tell me from Deli … “Oh,” my wife says, and she shudders, her hands covering her face for a moment. Those three years in Deli … I’ll never forget them. I was ten years old, thirteen when we left. I had such a romantic childhood that I really…
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DELI PLANTER
INLEIDINGMet dit boek heb ik beoogd een getrouw beeld te geven van het lief en het leed in mijn 15-jarige plantersloopbaan ondervonden.Zooveel mogelijk heb ik getracht geen verkeerde voorstellingen te wekken omtrent het leven in de tropen, daar ten onrechte enkele uitzonderingsgevallen tot generaliseeren zouden kunnen leiden.In het plantersleven is de strijd om het bestaan…
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Report from Imperial Ching’s Envoy
Yen Ching Wang on 1886 Chinese fact finding mission In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, China had diplomatic representatives stationed in most Western capitals. The first imperial Chinese consulate was set up in Singapore at the end of 1877. All Chinese diplomats were required by the Ch’ing government to report regularly to…
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Chinese of Deli
De Bruin, 1918 In addition to the Chinese, destined for work on the Deli tobacco enterprises, over the years thousands of others have come from China to seek a living in the rapidly expanding Deli as traders, craftsmen, etc. In the various places, each of which forms a center of the surrounding enterprises, trade and…
Stories from Deli 