Tan Tjoen Tiat, 2nd Majoor der Chinezen was a Chinese-Indonesian bureaucrat who served as the second Majoor der Chinezen, or Chinese headman, of Batavia, now Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. This was th
Portrait of Tan Tjoen Tiat 2nd Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia Mid-19th century (Leiden University)
A litograph of Batavia, based on a drawing by C. Deeleman (1859).
Baron Sloet van de Beele (1806–1890), Governor-General at the time of Tan's elevation to the post of Majoor in 1865.
The Peranakan Chinese are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang, namely the British, Port
A photograph of Peranakan wedding couple – Chung Guat Hooi, the daughter of Kapitan Chung Thye Phin and Khoo Soo Beow, the son of Khoo Heng Pan, both of Penang – from a museum in Penang
Two Peranakan women at a tin factory in Pulau Singkep, Riau Islands.
Tjhit Liap Seng (1886) by Lie Kim Hok was considered the first Chinese Malay novel.
Hok An Kiong Chinese Temple, Jalan Coklat, Surabaya c. 1900 – 1920. Large Chinese communities were already present in Java when the Dutch arrived just before the 1600s. Many Chinese had native concubines until a large group of mestizos arose, who spoke Malay or Javanese.