Ep. 278 | The Hakka Kongsis of Borneo (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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The Gold Mines of Mempawa
The word galen tang was adopted as the indonesian word for any sort of chinese temple. The other major goddess was gwan ying, whose temples were called gwanin ting. No one was looking to settle down and call the place home. The end game was always to strike it rich and then head back to their haka homeland. And eastern kwong tong. By the end of the 17 hundreds, some forty thousand chinese were digging in the mines of west borneo,. already outnumbering the malay population.
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