Mac Cuu

Mac Cuu
A statue of Mac Cuu in Hà Tiên
Chinese name
Chinese	鄚玖
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Mò Jǐu Cantonese (Yue) - Yale Romanization Mohk Gáu
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	Mạc Cửu

Mạc Cửu (1655^{[citation needed]}–1735) was a Chinese adventurer who played a role in relations between Cambodia and the Nguyen court. He was born in Leizhou, Guangdong. Sometime between 1687 and 1695, the Cambodian king sponsored him to migrate to Banteay Meas, where he at first served as chief of a small Chinese community, with the Khmer title Okna.^[1] By 1700, he had established an independent^{[citation needed]} kingdom at Hà Tiên, known variously as Gangkouguo (港口國), Bendiguo, or Hexian Zhen in Chinese, and Cancao, Peam, or Pontomeas by Europeans.^[2] However, he later switched allegiance to the Nguyen.^[3] He sent a tribute mission to the Nguyen court in 1708, and in return received the title of Tong Binh of Hà Tiên.^[4] He died in 1735.^[5]

Mạc's son, Mạc Thiên Tứ, was born in 1700 to a women from Biên Hòa. He also had a daughter, Mac Kim Dinh, who was married to the son of the Chinese general Trần Thượng Xuyên.^[6][7] as more vietnamese arrived, the kingdom was annexed by the Nguyễn and merged with vietnamese territory in 1800's. A genealogy of his clan is Hà Tiên trấn Hiệp trấn Mạc thị gia phả.

Notes

1. ^ Cooke & Li 2004, p. 43
2. ^ Cooke & Li 2004, p. 63
3. ^ Coedes 1966, p. 213
4. ^ Cooke & Li 2004, pp. 43–44
5. ^ Cooke & Li 2004, p. 44
6. ^ Coedes 1966, p. 213
7. ^ Ooi 2004, p. 806; see also Mạc Thiên Tứ and Trần Thượng Xuyên on the Vietnamese Wikipedia

Sources

• Coedes, George (1966), The making of South East Asia, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520050617 
• Cooke, Nola; Li, Tana (2004), Water frontier: commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 9780742530836 
• Ooi, Keat Gin (2004), "Mac Thien Tu (1780-1800)", Southeast Asia: a historical encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, Volume 1, ABC-CLIO, pp. 806–807, ISBN 1576077705, http://books.google.com/books?id=QKgraWbb7yoC&pg=PA806 

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Date of birth	1655
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Date of death	1735
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