Tio Ie Soei
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Tio Ie Soei, also known by the pen name Tjoa Pit Bak, was a peranakan Chinese writer and journalist active in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia. Born in the capital at Batavia, Tio entered journalis
Nona Tjoe Joe, Pertjinta'an jang Membawa Tjilaka (1922)
Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari
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Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari is an 1884 Malay-language syair by Lie Kim Hok. Adapted indirectly from the Sjair Abdoel Moeloek, it tells of a woman who passes as a man to free her husband from the Sultan o
Tio Ie Soei
…including Bintang Soerabaia, Warna Warta, and Kong Po. One of these writings, published in the Bandung-based Lay Po in 1923, revealed that Lie Kim Hok's Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari (1884) had based heavily on Raja Ali Haji's 1846 poem Sjair Abdoel Moeloek. This created a scandal, and Lie was accused of plagiarism. In 1924 he…
Third printing, 1922
Lie Kim Hok, author of Siti Akbari
A promotional still from the film Siti Akbari (1940)
Lie borrowed heavily from Sjair Abdoel Moeloek.