- Lanfang Republic
The Lanfang Republic (modern name in
Traditional Chinese : _zh. 蘭芳共和國,Hanyu Pinyin : Lánfāng Gònghéguó) was aHakka state inWest Kalimantan , orKalimantan Barat inIndonesia that was established byLow Lan Pak (Luo Fangbo ) (羅芳伯) in 1777, until it was ended by Dutch occupation in 1884.The
sultans ofWestern Borneo imported Chinese laborers in 18th century to work ingold ortin mines . A number of mining communities (kongsi ) enjoyed some political autonomy, but Lanfang is the best known thanks to a history written byYap Siong-yoen , the son-in-law of the lastkapitan of the Lanfang "kongsi", which was translated into Dutch in 1885. [Harvard reference | Surname=Groot | Given=J.J.M. | Title=Het Kongsiwezen van Borneo: eene verhandeling over den grondslag en den aard der chineesche politieke vereenigingen in de koloniën | Publisher=M. Nijhof | Place=The Hague | Year=1885. ] None of the other Chinese mining settlements in western Kalimantan left written accounts (Heidhues 2001:169).Notes
References
Harvard reference | Surname=Heidhues | Given=Mary Somers | Year= 2001 | Chapter=Chinese Settlements in Rural Southeast Asia: Unwritten Histories | Editor=Anthony Reid| Title=Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese | Publisher=University of Hawaii Press | Place=Honolulu.
External links
* [http://www.asiawind.com/hakka/lanfang.htm Info at Asiawind.com]
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