Lie Kim Hok
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Lie Kim Hok was a peranakan Chinese teacher, writer, and social worker active in the Dutch East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature".
Lie, c. 1900
Lie studied painting under Raden Saleh.
Cover of Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari, Lie's first published syair
Lie's former schoolmate Phoa Keng Hek, one of the Tiong Hoa Hwe Koan's founders
Syair Abdul Muluk
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Sjair Abdoel Moeloek is an 1847 syair credited variously to Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha. It tells of a woman who passes as a man to free her husband from the Sultan of Hindustan, who had captur
Lie Kim Hok
…1994. Writing for the Chinese-owned newspaper Lay Po in 1923, Tio revealed that Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari had been heavily influenced by the 1847 poem Sjair Abdoel Moeloek, credited variously to Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha. He noted that Sair Siti Akbari, which Lie stated to be his own, closely followed the earlier…
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