Wang Annan riji: A Hokkien Literatus Visits Saigon (1890)
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Salmon, Claudine
Hiệp, Tạ Trọng
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Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University
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This article presents and translates a manuscript record emanating from a Chinese based
in Batavia who in 1890 went to Saigon in order to assist a Dutch emissary. It shows that its
author, a certain Tan Siu Eng, was the secretary of the Sinologist Willem Pieter Groenevelt
who had been sent on a mission to Indochina to investigate the opium regie. The record
provides insights into the Baba Chinese community from the Straits in Saigon, as well as in
the way its author looked at the French colonial system, which he compares to its British
counterpart in Singapore.
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Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
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