Category: People
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Lim Chai Khoa
Kisah ini berkembang dari mulut ke mulut di sekitar Payabakung seperti dituturkan A Lai, generasi keempat Lim Chai Khoa penghuni rumah tandil warisan zaman Belanda di Desa Payabakung, Deliserdang, Sumatera Utara. Nah, dari bangunan bersejarah itulah cerita ini bermula… Salah seorang kuli kontrak yang berhasil direkrut Belanda untuk bekerja di Sumatera adalah Lim Chai Khoa.…
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Luitenant der Chinezen
Oostkust van Sumatra AFDEELING DELI EN SERDANG (MEDAN). Ondorafdoeling Medan Majoor der Chineezen te Medan. Tsiong Jong Jian or Tjong Yong Hian, 23 April 1905 Majoor der Chineezen te Medan. Tsjiong Tsiok Fie, Alias Tjong A Fie, 22 Nov. 1911 Majoor der Chineezen te Medan. Khoe Tjin Tek, 10 Nov. 1922. Kapitein der Chinezen te…
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Khoe Tjin Tek
The visitor to the Far East is often surprised to find that the most modern constructions, such as magnificent banking establishments and Government offices, are, in many cases, the work of Chinese contractors. Mr. Khoo Cheng Tek (or Khoe Tjin Tek) is not only a contractor and timber merchant, but combines with that business the…
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Tjong A Fie
Chinese Major of Medan (Deli), Sumatra (east coast), was born at Moy Hian, Canton, and that name he chiefly uses in this country. In China, however, he is known as Tjong Jiauw Hian, whilst his name in Chinese Government circles is Tjong Foeng Nam. During his childhood he was very studious, but his parents were…
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Coolies Affair
After 1900, some Officials for Chinese Affairs became involved in other coolie matters, when they were charged with the inspection of labour conditions in the Indies and the accompaniment of direct repatriation of coolies. When Hoetink returned to Batavia in 1900, he was temporarily placed at the disposal of the Director of Justice to fulfil…
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Tjong Yong Hian and the Chaochow Railway
When the Imperial Chinese Railway Administration was established, director-general Sheng Hsuan-huai was looking for Overseas Chinese to finance a railway line. Sheng summoned Zhang Pi-shih, one of the wealthiest overseas Chinese capitalists, on his way to Hong Kong, to discuss ways and means of raising shares. Zhang Pi-shih has established a commercial empire in Southeast…
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Thio Thiau Siat
Thio Thiau Siat or Zhang Bishi left his home in rural Tai-pu county, Kwangtung province, to seek his fortune in Southeast Asia when only seventeen. Sources disagree as to the exact social status of his family but he definitely experienced poverty in his youth. Determined to make his fortune in Southeast Asia, he was able…
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Chang Puching
Chang Puching (also called Tjong Hau Liong) was the Chinese Consul General Titular in Medan, born in May 1885 in Meixian. China. He was the eldest son of the late Major of the Chinese Tjong Yong Hian and Lady Tjie She. The late the famous Major of the Chinese in Medan, Tjong A Fie, who…
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Lim Sam Hap
Lim Sam Hap was a Lieutenant of the Chinese in Pangkalan Brandan, Beneden Langkat. He was appointed on 26 May 1900. A position he held until his death in 1906. Lim Sam Hap was a head tandil of a tobacco company in Deli. Queeny Chang wrote he was working at Soengei Mentjirim plantation owned by…
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Lim Seng Moy
Here I show a settlement for the field time of Lim Seng Moy, who served with the Deli-Mij in 1916. Any coolie has his card there, as it is printed here, with a credit at the front, a debit at the back. So that’s the calculation about 8 months field time, after which he was…
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