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  2. Sitiawan - Wikipedia

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    Sitiawan grew from a small settlement with rubber tapping and latex processing as its main economic activities. The town was flanked by various Chinese settlements composed mostly of the descendants of immigrants from the Kutien district of Fuzhou, China. The original settlers were encouraged by the British to plant rice.

  3. Chin Peng - Wikipedia

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    Chin Peng was born Ong Boon Hua on 21 October 1924 into a middle-class family in the small seaside town of Sitiawan, Dindings, which was at the time a part of the Straits Settlements. His ancestral home was in Fuqing, Fujian, China.

  4. Fuzhou people - Wikipedia

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    Fuzhou people ( Chinese: 福州人; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng ), also known as Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people ( 福州十邑人 ), Eastern Min or Mindong are residents of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the Gutian and Pingnan counties of Fujian province and Matsu Islands in Taiwan. Fuzhou people are ...

  5. Sitiawan Settlement Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum exhibits various antique artifacts from the early days of the church. It houses more than 500 items of records, photos and historical documents on the early works by the Christians coming from Fuzhou, China. [1]

  6. Fuzhou dialect - Wikipedia

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    In English, the term "Fuzhou dialect" dominates, although "Fuzhounese" is also frequently attested. In older works written in English, the variety is called "Foochow dialect", based on the Chinese postal romanization of Fuzhou. In Indonesia (especially in Surabaya of East Java ), it is known locally as "Hokchia".

  7. History of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. [1] [2] The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ancestors of today's Taiwanese indigenous peoples. [3] People from China gradually came into contact with Taiwan by the time of the Yuan dynasty ...

  8. Malaysian Chinese - Wikipedia

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    This article is about people of Chinese ethnicity or nationality in Malaysia. For the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Malaysia, see Malaysian Mandarin. For Malaysians in China, see Malaysian diaspora.

  9. John Sung - Wikipedia

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    John Sung. John Sung Shang Chieh ( Chinese: 宋尙節, 27 September 1901 – 18 August 1944) [1] also John Sung, was a renowned Chinese Christian evangelist who played an instrumental role in the revival movement among the Chinese in mainland China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia during the 1920s and 1930s. [2]

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