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
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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".
Syair Abdul Muluk
…as the nobility and servants. Syair Abdul Muluk has seen several reprints and translations. It is often adapted to the stage, and was the basis for Lie Kim Hok's Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari. Abdul Muluk is the son of Abdul Hamid Syah, Sultan of Barbari. Raised in the nobility, at a young age he marries Siti Rahmat…
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