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  2. Chinese nobility - Wikipedia

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    In Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), the Dutch authorities appointed Chinese officers to the colonial administration to oversee the governance of the colony's Chinese subjects. [20] These officials bore the ranks of Majoor , Kapitein or Luitenant der Chinezen , and had extensive political and legal jurisdiction over the local Chinese ...

  3. Category:Chinese nobility - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano ... Pages in category "Chinese nobility" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  4. Category:Nobility in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Bahasa Melayu; ... Chinese nobility (13 C, 47 P) F. Filipino nobility (2 C, 26 P) G. ... Pages in category "Nobility in Asia"

  5. Sia (title) - Wikipedia

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    Sia (Chinese: 舍; pinyin: Shè; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sià; Javanese: Sio [1]) was a hereditary, noble title of Chinese origin, used mostly in colonial Indonesia. [2] [3] [4] It was borne by the descendants of Chinese officers, who were high-ranking, Chinese civil bureaucrats in the Dutch colonial government, bearing the ranks of Majoor, Kapitein or Luitenant der Chinezen (see: Kapitan Cina).

  6. Cabang Atas - Wikipedia

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    The phrase 'Cabang Atas' was first used by the colonial Indonesian historian Liem Thian Joe in his book Riwajat Semarang (published in 1933). [1] The term refers to a small group of old gentry families that dominated the Dutch colonial institution of the Chinese officership (see 'Kapitan Cina'); this was colonial Indonesia's equivalent of the Chinese mandarinate.

  7. Chinese Indonesians - Wikipedia

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    Citizens of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China) residing in Indonesia are served by two international schools: [219] Jakarta Taipei School (印尼雅加達臺灣學校), which was the first Chinese-language school in Indonesia since the Indonesian government ended its ban on the Chinese language, [220] and the Surabaya Taipei ...

  8. Chinese noble titles in the imperial period - Wikipedia

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    During imperial China (221 BCE – CE 1911), a wide variety of noble titles were granted. Some of these were hereditary; an overlapping subset were honorary. At the beginning of imperial China, the administration of territory was growing out of the older fengjian system, and the central government asserting more control over the old aristocracy.

  9. Scholar-official - Wikipedia

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    Scholar-official as a concept and social class first appeared during the Warring States period; before that, the Shi and Da Fu were two different classes.During the Western Zhou dynasty, the Duke of Zhou divided the social classes into the king, feudal lords, Da Fu, Shi, ordinary people, and slaves.