Ep. 278 | The Hakka Kongsis of Borneo (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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The Lanfan Gongse and the Eshunsongting
In the 17 fifties, when the chinese started arriving in greater numbers, the dutch figured out right quick they were engines that were powering the whole economy. And this is how these gomse republics came into being. There were two main ones that will look at in this episode, the lanfan gongse and the eshunsong ting. Lofang bo was not only an educated man familiar with the ins and outs of all the confucian classics, but was also first rate practitioner of the ch Chinese martial arts. You know lanchi china's famous hero, cungocer eren bren? Well he included us in his
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