Kapitan China Yap Ah Loy, also known as Yap Tet Loy and Yap Mao Lan, is an important figure of early Kuala Lumpur. He served as the third Kapitan China of Kuala Lumpur, and in this administrative capacity, played an important role in developing the city as a commercial and mining centre during the 19th century.
Yap Ah Loy
Kapitan Cina, also spelled Kapitan China or Capitan China, was a high-ranking government position in the civil administration of colonial Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and the Philippines. Office holders exercised varying degrees of power and influence: from near-sovereign political and legal jurisdiction over local Chinese communities, to ceremonial precedence for community leaders. Corresponding posts existed for other ethnic groups, such as Kapitan Arab and Kapitan Keling for the local Arab and Indian communities respectively.
Tjong Ah Fie, Majoor der Chinezen of Medan
Kapitan Cina Yap Ah Loy, founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur
Official portrait of Khouw Kim An, the 5th and last Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia
A court of law in Jepara, Central Java with the European, native, Chinese and Arab officials of the district (late 19th century).
