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Sia (title)
Sia (; ) was a hereditary, noble title of Chinese origin, used mostly in colonial Indonesia. It was borne by the descendants of Chinese officers, who were high-ranking, Chinese civil bureaucrats in the Dutch colonial government, bearing the ranks of ''Majoor, Kapitein'' or ''Luitenant der Chinezen'' (see: ''Kapitan Cina''). History As with other Chinese honorifics, the title 'Sia' came at the end of the title holder's name: for example, as in Oey Tamba ''Sia'' (1827–1856). The title was used not with its holder's surname, but with his given name, so ''Tamba Sia'' instead of ''Oey Sia''. In everyday speech, use of the title was often combined with other honorifics, such as ''Ako Sia'' ('elder brother Sia') or '' Baba Sia'' ('sir Sia'). Originally, the honorific was used in Imperial China to address certain senior mandarins, the relatives of a mandarin or descendants of the House of Koxinga, formerly the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Tungning. In colonial Indonesia, the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 August 1945. Following the Indonesian National Revolution, Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia and the Netherlands Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference, made peace in 1949. In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded the governorate of Dutch Malacca to Britain, leading to its eventual incorporation into Malacca, Malacca (state) of modern Malaysia. The Dutch East Indies was formed from the nationalised Factory (trading post), trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Batavian Republic, Dutch government in 1800. During the 19th century, the Dutch fought Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, many wars against indigenous rulers and peoples, which caused hundreds of thousands of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lim Ke Tjang
Lim or LIM may refer to: Name * Lim (Korean surname), a common Korean surname * Lim (Chinese surname), Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew and Hainanese spelling of the Chinese family name "Lin" * Christina Lim, Australian electrical engineer * Lim Kimya (1951/1952–2025), Cambodian and French politician * Liza Lim (born 1966), Australian classical composer * Poon Lim (1918–1991), formerly missing person at sea Abbreviations * Lanes in metres, a unit of measure for vehicle ferries * LIM College (Laboratory Institute of Merchandising), New York City, US * Linear induction motor * Logical Information Machines, Chicago, US software company * LIM domain, a protein-protein interaction domain * Lotus-Intel-Microsoft, the alliance responsible for the Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) Places * IATA airport code for Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru * Lim (Croatia), a bay and a valley * Lim (river), in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia * River Lim, Dorset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landed Gentry In China
The "gentry", or "landed gentry" in China was the elite who held privileged status through passing the Imperial exams, which made them eligible to hold office. These literati, or scholar-officials, (''shenshi'' 紳士 or ''jinshen'' 縉紳), also called 士紳 ''shishen'' "scholar gentry" or 鄉紳 ''xiangshen'' "local gentry", held a virtual monopoly on office holding, and overlapped with an unofficial elite of the wealthy. The Tang and Song dynasties expanded the civil service exam to replace the nine-rank system which favored hereditary and largely military aristocrats. As a social class they included retired mandarins or their families and descendants. Owning land was often their way of preserving wealth.Chang Chung-li hongli Zhang ''The Chinese Gentry: Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society'' (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955). Confucian classes The Confucian ideal of the four occupations ranked the scholar-official above farme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan
Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan (THHK, ) was an Indonesian Chinese organization founded on 17 March 1900 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Its founders included former classmates Lie Kim Hok and Phoa Keng Hek ''Sia'', both of whom had been educated at Sierk Coolsma's missionary school in the Dutch East Indies. At first its mission was to renew and spread Confucian Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, religion, theory of government, or way of life. Founded by Confucius ... ideas and the general level of knowledge among the Chinese-Indonesian population of the Indies.Overseas Chinese Nationalism, Lea E. Williams, MIT, 1960. References {{SEAsia-hist-stub Indonesian people of Chinese descent 1900 establishments in the Dutch East Indies 20th century in Jakarta Indonesian philosophy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kong Koan
A kong koan (; Dutch: ''Chinezen Raad''; Indonesian: ''Raad Tjina'') or "chinese council", was a high government body in the major capitals of the Dutch East Indies, consisting of all incumbent Chinese officers in those cities. It acted as both a judicial and executive authority and constituted part of the Dutch colonial system of indirect rule. The ''rechtszitting'', or official seat or building, housing the kong koan was called a kong tong (; literally "tribunal" or "law court"). Overview The Kong Koan as a government body was inseparable from the institution of Chinese officers, who were high-ranking civil administrators, appointed by the Dutch colonial authorities to govern the local Chinese community in colonial Indonesia. In the larger cities, the active officers sat as a council, the Kong Koan, in order to adjudicate justice, govern the local Chinese community and implement the directives of the colonial government. In executing these responsibilities, the Kong Koan had i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoa Liong Gie
Phoa Liong Gie Sia (: born in Bandung on June 4, 1905 – died on January 14, 1983, in Switzerland) was an Indonesian-born Swiss jurist, politician and newspaper owner of the late colonial era in the Dutch East Indies. Background and education He was born in 1905 into a prominent family of Peranakan Chinese roots, part of the ''Cabang Atas'' or the Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia. His great-grandfather, Phoa Tjeng Tjoan, served as ''Kapitein der Chinezen'' of Buitenzorg (now Bogor) from 1866 until 1878. This was a post in the colonial civil administration with political and legal jurisdiction over the local Chinese community. Phoa was styled 'Sia' from birth as the descendant of a Chinese officer. Phoa was also a great-nephew of the prominent community leader and landlord, Phoa Keng Hek ''Sia''. The younger Phoa was educated at the ''Europeesche Lagere School'' (European lower school) in Garut, and at the ''Hogere Burgerschool'' (higher civic school) in Batavia. Both in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwee Thiam Tjing
Kwee Thiam Tjing Sia (February 9, 1900 – May 28, 1974), also known by his pen name Tjamboek Bērdoeri Thorn Whip' was a prominent Indonesian writer, journalist and left-wing political activist. He is best remembered for his 1947 book, ' Indonesia dalem Api dan Bara', and for his role as a co-founder of the Partai Tionghoa Indonesia he 'Chinese-Indonesian Party'in 1932. Life Born in 1900 in Pasuruan, East Java, Kwee hailed on both sides of his family from old ''Peranakan'' lineages of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry with roots in the Chinese officership, which formed the Chinese bureaucratic elite of the Dutch East Indies. His father, Kwee Tjiong Khing, was a paternal grandson of Kwee Sioe Liem, '' Kapitein der Chinezen'' of Pasuruan, and a great-grandson of Kwee Sam Hway, the first ''Luitenant der Chinezen'' of Malang (1801–1865), as well as a maternal grandson of the Surabaya landowner Tan Tong Liep (1831–1907). Kwee Thiam Tjing's mother, Liem Liang Nio, was the daughter of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loa Sek Hie
Loa Sek Hie Sia (1898, Batavia – 1965, The Hague) was a colonial Indonesian politician, parliamentarian and the founding ''Voorzitter'' or chairman of the controversial, ethnic-Chinese self-defense force Pao An Tui (1946–1949). He was a ''Peranakan'' of Chinese-Indonesian, Austrian and Javanese descent. In his political career, he campaigned against racial discrimination and demanded better healthcare and education for ethnic Chinese in the Dutch East Indies. History Family and education Loa was born in Pasar Baru, Batavia in 1898 into one of the city's most prominent families, part of the 'Cabang Atas' or ''Peranakan'' Chinese gentry of Java. His grandfather was the tycoon Loa Po Seng, oJalan Posengin Pasar Baru, while his father, Loa Tiang Hoei, served as ''Kapitein der Chinezen'' of Pasar Baru. This was a civil government appointment with legal and political authority over the local Chinese community. Loa's mother, Louise Goldman, came from an Indo-European family o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hok Hoei Kan
Kan Hok Hoei Sia (; 6 January 1881 - 1 March 1951), generally known as Hok Hoei Kan or in short H. H. Kan, was a prominent public figure, statesman and patrician landowner of Peranakan Chinese descent in the Dutch East Indies (today known as Indonesia). He was the founding president of Chung Hwa Hui (CHH), a Chinese-Indonesian political party, and sat as its leading parliamentary representative in the Volksraad. He advocated cooperation with the Dutch colonial authorities in order to attain racial and legal equality for the colony's Chinese community, but was criticised for his pro-Dutch sentiments and perceived elite indifference to poorer Indonesians. Family and early life Kan was born Han Khing Tjiang Sia in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, into the heart of the 'Cabang Atas' or the Chinese gentry of Java. His father, Han Oen Lee (1856—1893), served as '' Luitenant der Chinezen'' of Bekasi, an important administrative post in the colonial bureaucracy, and hail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khouw Kim An
Khouw Kim An, 5th Majoor der Chinezen (; 1875 – February 13, 1945) was a high-ranking Chinese Indonesian bureaucrat, public figure and landlord who served as the fifth and last ''Majoor der Chinezen'' ("Major of the Chinese") of Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta). The Chinese Mayoralty was the highest-ranking, Chinese government position in the East Indies with considerable political and judicial jurisdiction over the colony's Chinese subjects. The Batavian Mayoralty was one of the oldest public institutions in the Dutch colonial empire, perhaps second only in antiquity to the viceregal post of Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Family and background Khouw Kim An Sia was born in Batavia in 1875 to the ninth concubine of his father, Khouw Tjeng Tjoan, ''Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen'' (died in 1880). Khouw's father and uncles, Khouw Tjeng Kee and Khouw Tjeng Po, were the sons of the late eighteenth-century magnate, Khouw Tian Sek (died in 1843), patriar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oen Giok Khouw
Khouw Oen Giok Sia (1874 – 1927), later more popularly known as Oen Giok Khouw or O. G. Khouw, was a philanthropist and landowner in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). He gained notoriety for acquiring Dutch citizenship, thus breaking down the race barriers of colonial society. Today, he is best remembered for his extravagant mausoleum in Petamburan, Jakarta. Family Born in 1874 in Batavia (now Jakarta), he was a scion of the Khouw family of Tamboen, part of the ''Cabang Atas'' or the Chinese gentry (''baba bangsawan'') of colonial Indonesia. His father, Khouw Tjeng Kee, ''Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen'' (died in 1883), was a prominent landlord and community leader. Khouw's father and uncles, Luitenant Khouw Tjeng Tjoan and Luitenant Khouw Tjeng Po, were the sons of the late eighteenth-century magnate, Luitenant Khouw Tian Sek (died in 1843). The Chinese lieutenancies of Khouw's father, uncles and grandfather were honorary appointments without any of the entailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
