Thank you for your story about Chinese in Indonesia. My family has been in Canada for over 120 years and we are Cantonese. My ancestors were deal with a hefty Chinese Exclusion Head Tax of up to $500. My grandfather told me he had to work 5 years to pay off the $500. Perhaps they were also had the same discrimination and suppression by the Colonialists. Thanks again for the history lesson.
I'm amazed by the quality of this video! First of all is never thought of there's a Republic at that area. Secondly your video visualise the whole story very well, make me able to understand immediately. Thirdly, I'm waiting for part 2!!! You must be working very hard to let us have this good quality of video.. Really appreciate it and you deserve our likes and shares!!!
I still couldn't wrap my head around that a young person like you are so into the little known history of the Chinese diaspora in South East Asia 😱Thanks to you that I learned so much about the history of their arrival in the foreign land 🙏 I can't help but feel a sense of deep admiration for their success in a country that they knew so little about. I hope that the present-day youth appreciates the fruits that their forebears had worked so hard for them. It must have taken you days to find out their stories and the black-and-white pictures are just wonderful testimonies of their lives. I would think that they only appeared in obscure academic books. You may want to consider having a buy-me-a-coffee option that many youtubers have. I will certainly buy you one 😀
I have my paypal link at the description box 😊😊 I would really appreciate if you buy me a coffee through paypal ! ✨ I have yet to register the buy-me-a-coffee account. Guess it is not much differences than the paypal link 😊
@@FearlessPassport Where are you from? I have friends and researchers studying 刘善邦 in Bau, and they have flew to 罗峰 and met up with his relatives. Sarawak Chief Minister had recognised LSP existence in Bau for 200 years. Pls contact me to share your story.
Thanks for sharing the history of Lan Fang Republic to your audience. Hope more people are made aware of it and the history will not be lost. The irony is many Indonesians and even West Kalimantanese are not aware of its existence. I myself for example, as a West Kalimantanese, the first time I heard about Lan Fang Republic was during my High School year in the 90s in Australia during my Bahasa Indonesia Malaysia (BIM) class. There is another irony to that BIM class, while the students were mostly Malaysian and Indonesian, the teacher (the one sharing the story about Lan Fang Republic) was in fact a white Australian. Luckily it was a class discussing Indonesian and Malaysian literature and history rather than about linguistic skills thus the ethnicity of the teacher and us student was less relevant.
Well its because this want to keep hidden from Indonesian society. And later they (government or any malay radicals) made many books about lanfang, and its with their own perspective
If you are EU4 player, you would know about this Kongsi Federation when you play in Nusantara area. You will saw it pop up as early as 15th century because Ming 'explode' and they lose province around Canton. Idk if you already cover this country, but I suggest you to talk about Kingdom of Tungming where according to EU4, it existed because of Ming lose their coastal province, so Admiral Koxinga order Ming's Armada to go to Taiwan and form a kingdom.
Wow. Know so much of history from your video than reading Sejarah Textbook of Malaysia. Really appreciate every video you made. It's a contribution for the society.
Ya loh, Chinese sejarah for Chinese is best loh. Got Chinese Republic some more in Indonesia. Now Han can claim not only South China Sea but Indonesia also belong to China. Yam seng!.
@@zeppchann6988 lol nonsense! You are the one who did not read buku sejarah, if you only read buku teks sekolah menengah memang la tak ada! Berlambak je sejarah cina dan dayak dalam buku-buku Universiti dan buku tingkatan enam. Tu la masa orang belajar sejarah korang dok sibuk ambik sains dan matematik je....bila tak tahu sejarah nak salahkan kerajaan, semua benda nak salahkan buku teks HAHAHAH padahal malas membaca. Sejarah cina dekat cina la buat ape dekat sarawak, cina bukan pribumi Sarawak. Jangan memandai-mandai nak lagakan pribumi di Malaysia ni ye suku pribumi Melayu dan Dayak dah hidup bersama beribu tahun di bumi Sarawak ni sebelum ada orang cina pendatang lagi, kami tak pernah gaduh-gaduh rebut kongsi dan rebut tanah melombong macam kamu. Kalau Melayu dan Dayak bersatu, korang tengok la ape jadi masa rusuhan di Sambas dan Pontianak dulu, habis semua kepala cina dan madura kami potong!
In brief: The Dayak Kesultanan Mempawah was the 1st who bring in the Chinese miners followed by the Malay Kesultanan Sambas as more gold mining were found. Increasing kongsi from 8 to 14, and was awarded to self-governed. Later, Lo Fang Pak was chosen democratically to be the 1st President of Lang Fang Republic to govern, unite and protect the Chinese. They are under Kesultanan Pontianak and Sambas. It’s like a country inside a country. After hundred years, fallen into Dutch occupation. Many ran to Singapore, Sumatera etc
and you forgotten the more democratically and federalism kongsi known as Taikong,because all these people always praising Lanfang,its a very bias bollocks
Yee Ven - As usual, your videos are well researched, narrated and produced. And every time I watch your videos, I learn so much more of the history of the Chinese diaspora. And you are a great presenter. Keep it up.
Love you so much! This is insane! How could you know the history??? I am a 100% real Hakka person, speaking Hakka fluently, living in Singkawang 18 years before go to collage in other city, and I know a lot compared to most of my friends, and yet I still don't know the history until your video comes to youtube. There were no person in Singkawang had ever told me about the Lanfang Republic. I never thought or heard about it at all, even the "keyword/clue" of the story. I don't know why the history was lost, but thanks to your video now I can tell them the story. In the last few months I learn a lot about countries, history, and culture that turns out could help me understand myself, people around me, and society much better. Thanks a lot for creating this video and exist in youtube. God bless you!
👍👍👍 Very interesting history of Hakkas in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Thanks for your hard work in undertaking this research work. 💐 Eagerly awaiting your next vlog. Blessings from Kuching, Malaysia.
@@FearlessPassport If you visit Kuching, Sarawak in the near future, say in April/May, I will drive you to visit Bau town and also across the border to Sambas, Kalimantan, to visit these places mentioned in your vlogs. Blessings. Stay healthy and safe.
@@sylvesterfong9275 Please bring her to Lundu to visit the temple of Lo Fang Pak and also to the red temple of Engkilili where the names of the first batch of gold miners are still printed on the temple wall. In Bau, there is a temple of Liew Sang Ban , the gold miners''leader who fought with Raja James Brooke.
@@azulahuang3154 I am not aware of the significance of the other temples. I have been to the temple where the leader of the uprising against Rajah James Brooke was buried at Siniawan. Interested to find out the connection of Engkilili to the Bau miners. Do you know the history and connection ?
My grandparent are from teochew has come to pontianak for search new life since 1902 years ago. Now we speak teochew in my family but i also known of hakka. I think the imigrant hakka are the most chinese people existed in west kalimatan under lan fang generation and the most previously came to west kalimantan and then the second time are followed by teochew imigrant. The teochew accent most familiar as teoswa nang and they are mostly stayed along kapuas river.
Thank you very much for this part of the forgotten Overseas Chinese history. It is also a reminder of persistent hard-working Overseas Chinese was, is, and will be. But the Overseas Chinese must not forget about the immense, unimaginable, and untold sufferings they endured in many parts of the world. Also, the Overseas Chinese better not count on support from their ancestral country's government.
@@sylvesterfong9275 tks. Didn’t know Lan Fang stretched all the way into border of Sarawak. I thought it was just confined to Borneo. I think a Canto relative from Pontianak where sizable Canto are concentrated, might be descendant of the Lan Fangs
Wow! Thank you for this video. I am a very educated person and I also consider myself a history (and geography) buff. But honestly, I have never heard of the Lanfang Republic until today. You have opened my eyes!
Wow, thanks for these, as someone who was born in Kalimantan Barat, it is interested to know my origin, always wonder how my ancestor ended up in Pontianak
Thanks for your good work. How 天地会 was connected with Lanfang seemed to be a interesting point to dig, which might lead to business and cultural links between Lanfang and Taiwan, wish to see more from you@!
I like the title ofyour topic, however you should conduct more research about Sarawak. Sarawak was part of Brunei until the family Brooke came and received land as compensation over scams. Malay population was minority here. The main population consists of Dayak Laut and Barat, followed by Melanau, Kebayah etc. The Chinese migrants came around 19th century. Sarawak joined Malaysia in 1963.
My wife is a Malaysian-Chinese who comes from. Hokkien and Hakka parentage. She also has Malay DNA so she is likely a Peranakan. They have an interesting history in Malaysia.
That's explain why all of my Chinese friend from Pontianak are more "culturally Chinese" than others in Java Island. They had more tight close community, while Chinese in Java had to be more embrace local culture, to the point a lot of them are unable to talk in Chinese anymore.
Im a west kalimantanese. Never hear or learn about my anchestor until this day when i saw your youtube. Thanks for your hardwork making this video. Love from borneo
Keluarga lee kuan yew( pendiri negara singapura) berasal dari republik lanfang. Setelah lanfang republik colaps,untuk menghindari kejaran belanda. keluarga lee kuan yew melarikan diri ke temasek(singapura).
Amazing historical video you made. I myself born in w.kalimantan haven't know such these so detail. Good job, keep going on. 👍👍 The interesting part is 半山客 this is 1st time i heard about.
I have enjoyed your videos thus far & agree with most of the content. However, will you be going further back in time to the original Chinese colony of Palembang which became supreme in the Sri Vijayan confederacy of port-city states?
That might be too way behind and hardly get any true information from the internet. If you have the source, I'd be happy to make it into a video. Otherwise, it is a lot of work for me haha 😅
@@FearlessPassport If you have an email address, I could possibly send you links to historical records or research done. There were at least 1,000 Chinese families recorded in Sri Vijayan Palembang & probably many more single Chinese men. The Parameswara or ruler of Palembang sent an official report on the colony to the Emperor of the Middle Kingdom (China) once a year. The report would be personally delivered by the Ambassador from Palembang, who was always an ethnic Chinese from Fujian.
I thought I already have a glimpse of knowledge about Lanfang Republic since there have been several Indonesian articles covered it. I was wrong. There were so many fact shocked me. For example, I didn't know there was Tiandihui in Kalimantan. Thank you, Yeeven!
wow, despite being Indonesian chinese from west borneo I actually don't know much about these things, thank you TH-cam for having this video on my recommendations page! haha btw "kongsi" and "dagang" eventually become Indonesians words too. "kongsi" means alliance/partnership, and "dagang" means trade
You did such a remarkable job on explaining it. Please do this identical style of video for Medan’s Tjong A Fie :) next. Perhaps do that in conjunction to Penang’s Cheong Fatt Tze too since they are or may be connected..?
Thank you for highlighting this bit of history. I am gobsmacked. So much study and awareness is lacking in this area. Someone should make a mini series out of this! Btw, "militia" is pronounced as mee-li-sure. And instead of "involving parties", should be involved parties. Looking forward to more great content from you! (Have subscribed,)
Wow the Qing-Manchus even claimed this part of the Earth for themselves lol ? The more Iearn about this topic, the more am I fascinated. I'm looking forward to see the next video with the legacy of this republic in modern Indonesia. Banzai!
Not entirely "lost" the remnants of Hakka Lanfang Republic is the city now called Singkawang, where the ethnic Chinese there 90% of Hakka origins (Also Bangka-Billiton Islands almost 90% of the Chinese are Hakkas)... unlike other cities in the world where the Chinese are not of Hakka majority (Even Singapore, although its founder and leadership is from Hakka family, the majority of the island's chinese population is not Hakka)
The 1st Republic : Lanfang Republic around 1777 - 1884 The 2nd Republic : Beiyang Government Republic of China 1911 - 1927 The 3rd Republic : Nationalist Government Republic of China 1927 - 1990(Retreated to Taiwan in 1949) The 4th Republic : People's Republic of China 1949 - onwards The 5th Republic : Current Regime Republic of China 1990 - onwards(After Chiang Ching Kuo's death and coincides with the trend of democratisation, the regime started to end it's authoritarian policy.) From a certain point of view.
Taiwan to China is a woman ran away from her husband without formal Act of divorce. the husband still consider her as his wife, and wants to bring her back home. However, she refuses to return to her (ex)husband, because now she's in love with uncle Sam...
Thank you for the explanation. I am from West Borneo and Teo Chew just recently know this history. Now, I am looking for the community so I can speak Teo Chew fluently.
Nice reporting and very informative. Learned something new. Thank you! The little music was a bit distracting though, Sounds like you are singing to it.
Awesome video! Im currently on a bus from Kuching to Pontianak and fascinated by this history of Chinese in the region. I love history and Chinese cultures. The Langfang Republic, vassal of the Qing Dynasty, straddling the equator far from their homeland. While white Raja kings were ruling their own kindgom in Sarawak. All the while among headhunter locals and aggressive European colonial powers. Borneo is fascinating! Just FYI I'm from California and I've done a good amount of research on the Chinese immigrants and miners that also went there. A few of your images, for sure the one at 7:38, are pictures from California and the 1849 Gold Rush. Not Borneo or Kalimantan. About 600,000 Chinese migrated to California through San Francisco from about 1840-1900 to work in mines and build the railroads. They weren't always treated great in tte US, but still its a long legacy establishing Chinese Americans. Maybe inspiration for another video. 😊
Minutes 9:19 is a picture of Catholic misionaris who come to teach people in West Kalimantan. They first come in Singkawang at 1921 and create Holland Chinese Schools in Singkawang and Pontianak. I know because I research about this.
Hi im Dayak Bidayuh from Sarawak East Malaysia.My Ancestor is one of those who attacked The Lan Fang Chinese Republic during Rajah James Brooke Kingdom Of Sarawak Vs Lan Fang after Lang Fang Triad (Kingdom of Sarawak never considered Lan Fang as Kingdom but Kongsi Gelap also known as Black Market Triad because they never associate themself with China Manchu Gov) attack Kuching Capital Of Kingdom If Sarawak.Rajah James Brooke badly Escape and save by the Dayaks and assemble his Sarawakian Rangers troops and attack Lan Fang Republic along with Dutch and British and Destroy it.Because of that Lan Fang Republic fall and not able to supply Gold to China Manchu Dinasties in China.Manchu Dinasties badly fall because of not enought Gold).
I think you mistaken the Bau Chinese rebellion with this LanFang. Yes, Lau Shan Bong migrated from LanFang but his kongsi in Bau have nothing to do with LanFang.
South East Asia has the highest chinese diaspora in the world during the ancient times and even now you can see chinese in South east asia has so so many..so many of them has been assimilated with the local culture of south east asian people such as malay and indonesian and even filipinos.. Some of them still keep their chinese culture till these days
@Fearless Passports Please note that there are many books written on the biography of Lee Kuan Yew In these books there is not even any mention on the two words of Lan Fang. Lee Kuan Yew has nothing nothing to do with Lan Fang.bHis great grandfather came straight from DaPu District GaobeiTown to Singapore. In his ancestral village he funded the remake of his ancestral records.族譜. Every Lee family in the village was given a copy. There is no mention that anyone from Lee Kuan Yew village had ever migrated to Kalimantan all these years. People like to link to famous person. 攀龍附鳳 沽名釣譽.
Very interesting story for the ancient Chinese expatriate in the south Asia region indeed. It will let the current Mainlanders, especially the younger generation understand how hard living these Chinese expat had gone through. There is an unhealthy bias against Chinese expat that they will be labelled with "non-patriotic".
well if they are not the citizen of mainland china and a citizen of other country...WHY THE HELL SHOULD THEY STILL BE PATRIOTIC TO THE MAINLAND CHINA? They should be patriotic to the land and country that they were born in not where their ancestor came from. Are you saying all overseas chinese must be patriotic to the CCP? This Is why the local and native people where overseas chinese stay did not fully trust their chinese citizen. Because a lot of you guys are not patriotic to where you live but still clinging on to your middle kingdom china when in reality you were born and raised in a different country! YOU SHOULD BE PROUD IF THE MAINLANDERS CHINESE CALL YOU UN PATRIOTIC BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN OF MAINLAND CHINA!
Republic in old times is just sugarcoated term for 'perkampungan'. It just temporary settlement of certain people. It is not unusal across South East Asia having 'republic' by sailors. Kongsi even paid tributes to sultanate. It shows no sovereignity as it comes with unclear boundary of land also. "Why it is unkown that there is Lanfang Republic?" Because it is not yet a sovereign state. In old times, to be a sovereign state, it is important to have physical Regalia. Lanfang settlement has many signs of self governing but lack of regional recognition and symbol.
oh yeah.... a short lived republic of Proto-Singapore. In fact, many Lanfang citizens fled into a small outpost in the tip of Malay peninsula after the defeat of their republic against the Dutch
Thank You Fearless Support for telling back the History most of us forgot.it will prevent all Borneo fight and having Civil war in the future.No war.make love.
Thanks for the upload. I simply like it. Do you happen to have more insight of the Teochews and Hakka there. My later grandfather was a Lee, a Teochew and grandmother was Hakka, a Tjen. If you have any insights of such clans I am most grateful.
I found this state in EU4 and wondering what is lanfang state, they have confucian religion and chinese culture but their history is never writen in the Indonesian history books. I wonder why?
Thank you very much, you just explained to me our entire ancestor time line. Im teochiu from west borneo. My wife is hakka from west borneo. Subscribe to you now.
Another great video girl. Very informative and covered wide aspects of d minority factions .keep it up 👍👍.by year end u should b able to secure 100k+ subscribers 🙏🙏.
Lan fang republic is soveriegn from Ching dynasty but admited as tributary state like many other asean kingdom. Unlike spratlies that everyone knew it belongs to ching dynasty at that time. So china cannot claim them.
Thanks for sharing this information, hehe my dad is hakka, n my mom is tiociu, but our parent dont share a history like this hahahhaa... Our chinese history in our blood almost gone 😂
Did Lanfang migran married with dayaknese? Ngang surename is surname of my Dayak kenyah family but it is also chinese Surnames in Singapore Chinese community. I think in Singapore lanfang migrant also moved there to singapore.
Thank you for your story about Chinese in Indonesia. My family has been in Canada for over 120 years and we are Cantonese. My ancestors were deal with a hefty Chinese Exclusion Head Tax of up to $500. My grandfather told me he had to work 5 years to pay off the $500. Perhaps they were also had the same discrimination and suppression by the Colonialists. Thanks again for the history lesson.
I'm amazed by the quality of this video!
First of all is never thought of there's a Republic at that area.
Secondly your video visualise the whole story very well, make me able to understand immediately.
Thirdly, I'm waiting for part 2!!!
You must be working very hard to let us have this good quality of video.. Really appreciate it and you deserve our likes and shares!!!
Thank you thank you!
This is an excellent research report of Chinese history in Indonesia.
I still couldn't wrap my head around that a young person like you are so into the little known history of the Chinese diaspora in South East Asia 😱Thanks to you that I learned so much about the history of their arrival in the foreign land 🙏 I can't help but feel a sense of deep admiration for their success in a country that they knew so little about. I hope that the present-day youth appreciates the fruits that their forebears had worked so hard for them. It must have taken you days to find out their stories and the black-and-white pictures are just wonderful testimonies of their lives. I would think that they only appeared in obscure academic books. You may want to consider having a buy-me-a-coffee option that many youtubers have. I will certainly buy you one 😀
I have my paypal link at the description box 😊😊 I would really appreciate if you buy me a coffee through paypal ! ✨ I have yet to register the buy-me-a-coffee account. Guess it is not much differences than the paypal link 😊
@@FearlessPassport Where are you from? I have friends and researchers studying 刘善邦 in Bau, and they have flew to 罗峰 and met up with his relatives. Sarawak Chief Minister had recognised LSP existence in Bau for 200 years.
Pls contact me to share your story.
Thanks for sharing the history of Lan Fang Republic to your audience. Hope more people are made aware of it and the history will not be lost. The irony is many Indonesians and even West Kalimantanese are not aware of its existence. I myself for example, as a West Kalimantanese, the first time I heard about Lan Fang Republic was during my High School year in the 90s in Australia during my Bahasa Indonesia Malaysia (BIM) class. There is another irony to that BIM class, while the students were mostly Malaysian and Indonesian, the teacher (the one sharing the story about Lan Fang Republic) was in fact a white Australian. Luckily it was a class discussing Indonesian and Malaysian literature and history rather than about linguistic skills thus the ethnicity of the teacher and us student was less relevant.
Well its because this want to keep hidden from Indonesian society. And later they (government or any malay radicals) made many books about lanfang, and its with their own perspective
If you are EU4 player, you would know about this Kongsi Federation when you play in Nusantara area. You will saw it pop up as early as 15th century because Ming 'explode' and they lose province around Canton. Idk if you already cover this country, but I suggest you to talk about Kingdom of Tungming where according to EU4, it existed because of Ming lose their coastal province, so Admiral Koxinga order Ming's Armada to go to Taiwan and form a kingdom.
我是柬埔寨第三代潮州人，也一直關注你的頻道。 看到您選擇學習高棉語，我非常高興和興奮，因為對大多數人來說，高棉太複雜了，不容易學。
你中文真好。你还在柬埔寨生活吗？
Wow. Know so much of history from your video than reading Sejarah Textbook of Malaysia. Really appreciate every video you made. It's a contribution for the society.
Ya loh, Chinese sejarah for Chinese is best loh. Got Chinese Republic some more in Indonesia. Now Han can claim not only South China Sea but Indonesia also belong to China. Yam seng!.
Sejarah Sarawak ada di Muzium Sarawak tapi Malaysia cuba musnahkan sejarah Cina dan Dayak.Thats why Sarawak Sabah benci giler.
History is not to judge who is the best. We just want to know the real story of past that's all. Don't make it too complicated.
@@zeppchann6988
Betul.
@@zeppchann6988 lol nonsense! You are the one who did not read buku sejarah, if you only read buku teks sekolah menengah memang la tak ada! Berlambak je sejarah cina dan dayak dalam buku-buku Universiti dan buku tingkatan enam. Tu la masa orang belajar sejarah korang dok sibuk ambik sains dan matematik je....bila tak tahu sejarah nak salahkan kerajaan, semua benda nak salahkan buku teks HAHAHAH padahal malas membaca. Sejarah cina dekat cina la buat ape dekat sarawak, cina bukan pribumi Sarawak. Jangan memandai-mandai nak lagakan pribumi di Malaysia ni ye suku pribumi Melayu dan Dayak dah hidup bersama beribu tahun di bumi Sarawak ni sebelum ada orang cina pendatang lagi, kami tak pernah gaduh-gaduh rebut kongsi dan rebut tanah melombong macam kamu. Kalau Melayu dan Dayak bersatu, korang tengok la ape jadi masa rusuhan di Sambas dan Pontianak dulu, habis semua kepala cina dan madura kami potong!
This is applausable! I wish this channel received more recognition it deserves
Wow, another high quality video. So much to learn. Appreciate your dedication. Thank you
Thank you Tony for watching!
In brief: The Dayak Kesultanan Mempawah was the 1st who bring in the Chinese miners followed by the Malay Kesultanan Sambas as more gold mining were found. Increasing kongsi from 8 to 14, and was awarded to self-governed. Later, Lo Fang Pak was chosen democratically to be the 1st President of Lang Fang Republic to govern, unite and protect the Chinese. They are under Kesultanan Pontianak and Sambas. It’s like a country inside a country. After hundred years, fallen into Dutch occupation. Many ran to Singapore, Sumatera etc
Mempawah Sultan was not even a Dayak Sultanate, the first Sultan was a Bugis mix. The local population was mainly Dayak, Malay and Bugis.
and you forgotten the more democratically and federalism kongsi known as Taikong,because all these people always praising Lanfang,its a very bias bollocks
@@wahaha918 which part of the History is not right bollocks?
Very intriguing discussion. Love to learn more.
@@wewenang5167 they were Dayak during Hindu era before turning into Muslim era by the son-in-law the Bugis mix.
Interesting subject and very informative. Never learn about this in Indonesian history. Now I know better of my country history. Thanks
Thank you Ratna for your time :)
@@FearlessPassport always love your videos. Keep posting more please.
My mother ( Lim Fong Yin) was born in 1918 to a prominent Hakka family in Pontianak who were exiled to Singapore by the Dutch.
一直有在关注你的频道，感觉做的非常用心，让我这个从来没有去过东南亚的大陆人也了解到百多年前南洋华人同胞落地生根白手起家的历史，期待创作出更多更好的视频，加油！
Yee Ven - As usual, your videos are well researched, narrated and produced. And every time I watch your videos, I learn so much more of the history of the Chinese diaspora. And you are a great presenter. Keep it up.
Love you so much! This is insane! How could you know the history??? I am a 100% real Hakka person, speaking Hakka fluently, living in Singkawang 18 years before go to collage in other city, and I know a lot compared to most of my friends, and yet I still don't know the history until your video comes to youtube. There were no person in Singkawang had ever told me about the Lanfang Republic. I never thought or heard about it at all, even the "keyword/clue" of the story. I don't know why the history was lost, but thanks to your video now I can tell them the story. In the last few months I learn a lot about countries, history, and culture that turns out could help me understand myself, people around me, and society much better. Thanks a lot for creating this video and exist in youtube. God bless you!
Lol. Lo fung pak was well known by many hakka in west Kalimantan. I think later generation is not interested in this.
Wah Orang Kalimantan Barat Juga Aku Khek Kalimantan Barat Juga Wkwkwkwkwkwkwkwk
Very high quality history video! Almost up to the level of commercial TV channels.
👍👍👍 Very interesting history of Hakkas in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Thanks for your hard work in undertaking this research work. 💐
Eagerly awaiting your next vlog.
Blessings from Kuching, Malaysia.
Thank you Sylvester Fong, part 2 will talk about the Sarawak Chinese Settlement, hope you will like it :)
@@FearlessPassport
If you visit Kuching, Sarawak in the near future, say in April/May, I will drive you to visit Bau town and also across the border to Sambas, Kalimantan, to visit these places mentioned in your vlogs.
Blessings. Stay healthy and safe.
@@sylvesterfong9275 Please bring her to Lundu to visit the temple of Lo Fang Pak and also to the red temple of Engkilili where the names of the first batch of gold miners are still printed on the temple wall. In Bau, there is a temple of Liew Sang Ban , the gold miners''leader who fought with Raja James Brooke.
@@azulahuang3154
I am not aware of the significance of the other temples. I have been to the temple where the leader of the uprising against Rajah James Brooke was buried at Siniawan.
Interested to find out the connection of Engkilili to the Bau miners. Do you know the history and connection ?
@@FearlessPassport
When will you release your Part 2 ?
My grandparent are from teochew has come to pontianak for search new life since 1902 years ago. Now we speak teochew in my family but i also known of hakka. I think the imigrant hakka are the most chinese people existed in west kalimatan under lan fang generation and the most previously came to west kalimantan and then the second time are followed by teochew imigrant. The teochew accent most familiar as teoswa nang and they are mostly stayed along kapuas river.
Very educational.......It looks like a Lost world was found by viewing this video.....Well done....!
Heartfelt appreciation Mr. Lee. Thanks for watching🙏
Great video and very informative . I didn’t know about the existence of the republic . Looking forward for the part 2
Thank you hehehe hope you will like the Part 2 :)
Thank you very much for this part of the forgotten Overseas Chinese history. It is also a reminder of persistent hard-working Overseas Chinese was, is, and will be. But the Overseas Chinese must not forget about the immense, unimaginable, and untold sufferings they endured in many parts of the world. Also, the Overseas Chinese better not count on support from their ancestral country's government.
what a good sharing about this topic, didnt know that there used to have such a huge chinese community in East Malaysia.
Glad you know something new :)
Err…should be Borneo, Indonesia, not East Malaysia?
The Chinese diaspora and exodus. Fatherland was too uninhabitable, too hash and too cruel.
@@aryanhan506
Bau is in Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Sambas is in Kalimantan Borneo, Indonesia.
@@sylvesterfong9275 tks. Didn’t know Lan Fang stretched all the way into border of Sarawak. I thought it was just confined to Borneo. I think a Canto relative from Pontianak where sizable Canto are concentrated, might be descendant of the Lan Fangs
好棒棒的分享！前几天才看到新闻说大马学生都对东马的历史不认识，而且教科书也是寥寥几字带过，今天就看到了你的分享。希望以后可以有机会看到你还原东马的历史。
教科书的确没说到这个，我也是前几年偶尔翻查资料才懂的。
Wow! Thank you for this video. I am a very educated person and I also consider myself a history (and geography) buff. But honestly, I have never heard of the Lanfang Republic until today. You have opened my eyes!
Great video. Congratulations. Visualising this story in such a way is quite impressive.
Wow, thanks for these, as someone who was born in Kalimantan Barat, it is interested to know my origin, always wonder how my ancestor ended up in Pontianak
Yes, there are some names list about my ancestors completely no story in it. Just names. Kalimantan Barat.
Thank you for uploading and sharing this information. I really appreciate your efforts in uncovering our Chinese history in SEA.
Thanks for your good work. How 天地会 was connected with Lanfang seemed to be a interesting point to dig, which might lead to business and cultural links between Lanfang and Taiwan, wish to see more from you@!
I like the title ofyour topic, however you should conduct more research about Sarawak. Sarawak was part of Brunei until the family Brooke came and received land as compensation over scams. Malay population was minority here. The main population consists of Dayak Laut and Barat, followed by Melanau, Kebayah etc. The Chinese migrants came around 19th century. Sarawak joined Malaysia in 1963.
Thanks for your sharing. I wouldn't have know this piece of history if not for your video. And very interesting indeed.
My wife is a Malaysian-Chinese who comes from. Hokkien and Hakka parentage. She also has Malay DNA so she is likely a Peranakan. They have an interesting history in Malaysia.
I just got to know your channel and I really appreciate and love it. Really informative. Thanks
Good to know there's still people knowing about these unknown nations, I was actually studying about it months ago so thank you for the cover
Loving these vids, really helping me to understand the history of SE Asia better!
Hi Alice, where do you come from?
@@FearlessPassport I’m American. My best friend is Indonesian so I like watching these videos with him. Thanks so much for making them!
That's explain why all of my Chinese friend from Pontianak are more "culturally Chinese" than others in Java Island.
They had more tight close community, while Chinese in Java had to be more embrace local culture, to the point a lot of them are unable to talk in Chinese anymore.
Im a west kalimantanese. Never hear or learn about my anchestor until this day when i saw your youtube. Thanks for your hardwork making this video. Love from borneo
nihao, im from indonesia, nice video and history
Very impressed with your channel and your presentation. Your material is clear and illuminating. I did not know this history.
Thank You for your effort. You researched well. Waiting for more! I’ll buy you coffee.
Thank you so much Doris!🙏🙏 much much appreciation to you ✨✨
Keluarga lee kuan yew( pendiri negara singapura) berasal dari republik lanfang. Setelah lanfang republik colaps,untuk menghindari kejaran belanda. keluarga lee kuan yew melarikan diri ke temasek(singapura).
Amazing historical video you made. I myself born in w.kalimantan haven't know such these so detail. Good job, keep going on. 👍👍
The interesting part is 半山客 this is 1st time i heard about.
I have enjoyed your videos thus far & agree with most of the content. However, will you be going further back in time to the original Chinese colony of Palembang which became supreme in the Sri Vijayan confederacy of port-city states?
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That might be too way behind and hardly get any true information from the internet. If you have the source, I'd be happy to make it into a video. Otherwise, it is a lot of work for me haha 😅
Chinese colony in Palembang? That’s interesting. Hopes to hear more
@@FearlessPassport If you have an email address, I could possibly send you links to historical records or research done. There were at least 1,000 Chinese families recorded in Sri Vijayan Palembang & probably many more single Chinese men. The Parameswara or ruler of Palembang sent an official report on the colony to the Emperor of the Middle Kingdom (China) once a year. The report would be personally delivered by the Ambassador from Palembang, who was always an ethnic Chinese from Fujian.
Several Indonesia cities actually pioneered by Chinese
I thought I already have a glimpse of knowledge about Lanfang Republic since there have been several Indonesian articles covered it. I was wrong. There were so many fact shocked me. For example, I didn't know there was Tiandihui in Kalimantan. Thank you, Yeeven!
Aaah.. Lanfang Republic.. one of the rarest formable nations in Europa Universalis 4
wow, despite being Indonesian chinese from west borneo I actually don't know much about these things, thank you TH-cam for having this video on my recommendations page! haha
btw "kongsi" and "dagang" eventually become Indonesians words too.
"kongsi" means alliance/partnership, and
"dagang" means trade
You did such a remarkable job on explaining it. Please do this identical style of video for Medan’s Tjong A Fie :) next.
Perhaps do that in conjunction to Penang’s Cheong Fatt Tze too since they are or may be connected..?
Thank you for highlighting this bit of history. I am gobsmacked. So much study and awareness is lacking in this area. Someone should make a mini series out of this! Btw, "militia" is pronounced as mee-li-sure. And instead of "involving parties", should be involved parties.
Looking forward to more great content from you! (Have subscribed,)
Thanks for your correction!
Very impressive documentary. You are very resourceful in uncovering every detail of the lost republic. Keep up your good work.
Interesting video! Enjoyed most of your well-researched, well-organized, and educative videos. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more videos.
very good and informative! I'll watch part 2 tomorrow. haha good job Fearless Passport. keep up the food work.
I from Bau and yes there's gold mine there,now became blue lake and tourism
Wow the Qing-Manchus even claimed this part of the Earth for themselves lol ?
The more Iearn about this topic, the more am I fascinated. I'm looking forward to see the next video with the legacy of this republic in modern Indonesia.
Banzai!
I'll try to edit the Part 2 by tonight :)
Not entirely "lost" the remnants of Hakka Lanfang Republic is the city now called Singkawang, where the ethnic Chinese there 90% of Hakka origins (Also Bangka-Billiton Islands almost 90% of the Chinese are Hakkas)... unlike other cities in the world where the Chinese are not of Hakka majority (Even Singapore, although its founder and leadership is from Hakka family, the majority of the island's chinese population is not Hakka)
The 1st Republic : Lanfang Republic around 1777 - 1884
The 2nd Republic : Beiyang Government Republic of China 1911 - 1927
The 3rd Republic : Nationalist Government Republic of China 1927 - 1990(Retreated to Taiwan in 1949)
The 4th Republic : People's Republic of China 1949 - onwards
The 5th Republic : Current Regime Republic of China 1990 - onwards(After Chiang Ching Kuo's death and coincides with the trend of democratisation, the regime started to end it's authoritarian policy.)
From a certain point of view.
I beg to differ. The ROC government can be counted as 2 different era.
Taiwan to China is a woman ran away from her husband without formal Act of divorce.
the husband still consider her as his wife, and wants to bring her back home.
However, she refuses to return to her (ex)husband, because now she's in love with uncle Sam...
And the fact is that the majority of the founders of that country were the same as the people who founded the Lanfang Republic (Hakka sub-ethnicity)
客家是汉族民系之一，是唯一一个不以地域命名的民系，其祖先是原籍为河南地区的中原汉族。客家民系是自秦朝至今在南方地区已有两千多年居住历史的重要群体，是广东、福建和江西等省份本地主要族群。客家人的南迁，最早可以追溯到秦始皇时代，当然这个说法不一定很准确，比较靠谱的有记载的从西晋到晚请大约经过五次大规模迁徙最终才形成相对成熟的、具有很强稳定性的客家民系。
Thank you for the explanation. I am from West Borneo and Teo Chew just recently know this history. Now, I am looking for the community so I can speak Teo Chew fluently.
I can listen to you talk whole night
Great stuff. I'm the great granddaughter of Liu Ah Sheng and my grandfather was also the Kapitan of Bau
Nice reporting and very informative. Learned something new. Thank you! The little music was a bit distracting though, Sounds like you are singing to it.
Thank you :) I'll reduce the volume next time!✨
This is such a fantastic research! Thank you so much!
Well-documented video of great interest to those living in Sarawak too.
Awesome video! Im currently on a bus from Kuching to Pontianak and fascinated by this history of Chinese in the region. I love history and Chinese cultures. The Langfang Republic, vassal of the Qing Dynasty, straddling the equator far from their homeland. While white Raja kings were ruling their own kindgom in Sarawak. All the while among headhunter locals and aggressive European colonial powers. Borneo is fascinating!
Just FYI I'm from California and I've done a good amount of research on the Chinese immigrants and miners that also went there. A few of your images, for sure the one at 7:38, are pictures from California and the 1849 Gold Rush. Not Borneo or Kalimantan. About 600,000 Chinese migrated to California through San Francisco from about 1840-1900 to work in mines and build the railroads. They weren't always treated great in tte US, but still its a long legacy establishing Chinese Americans. Maybe inspiration for another video. 😊
Minutes 9:19 is a picture of Catholic misionaris who come to teach people in West Kalimantan. They first come in Singkawang at 1921 and create Holland Chinese Schools in Singkawang and Pontianak. I know because I research about this.
Hi im Dayak Bidayuh from Sarawak East Malaysia.My Ancestor is one of those who attacked The Lan Fang Chinese Republic during Rajah James Brooke Kingdom Of Sarawak Vs Lan Fang after Lang Fang Triad (Kingdom of Sarawak never considered Lan Fang as Kingdom but Kongsi Gelap also known as Black Market Triad because they never associate themself with China Manchu Gov) attack Kuching Capital Of Kingdom If Sarawak.Rajah James Brooke badly Escape and save by the Dayaks and assemble his Sarawakian Rangers troops and attack Lan Fang Republic along with Dutch and British and Destroy it.Because of that Lan Fang Republic fall and not able to supply Gold to China Manchu Dinasties in China.Manchu Dinasties badly fall because of not enought Gold).
I think you mistaken the Bau Chinese rebellion with this LanFang.
Yes, Lau Shan Bong migrated from LanFang but his kongsi in Bau have nothing to do with LanFang.
South East Asia has the highest chinese diaspora in the world during the ancient times and even now you can see chinese in South east asia has so so many..so many of them has been assimilated with the local culture of south east asian people such as malay and indonesian and even filipinos.. Some of them still keep their chinese culture till these days
@Fearless Passports Please note that there are many books written
on the biography of Lee Kuan Yew In these books there is not even any
mention on the two words of Lan Fang. Lee Kuan Yew has nothing
nothing to do with Lan Fang.bHis great grandfather came straight from DaPu District GaobeiTown
to Singapore. In his
ancestral village he funded the remake of
his ancestral records.族譜.
Every Lee family in the village was given a copy. There is no mention that anyone from Lee Kuan Yew village had ever migrated to Kalimantan all these years. People like to link to famous person.
攀龍附鳳 沽名釣譽.
Thank you sis, this history was happen near my kampong,,, I already heard more about this lost republic,, thank for showing the world now 😁
I enjoyed watching your video so much!
Hi from Pontianak 👋
I loved all your videos ❤️
Great work! Thanks for the history lesson.
I will share with my Signal groups.
Thank you so much Chin Kang :)
good story but the background music is too loud and irritating
Very interesting story for the ancient Chinese expatriate in the south Asia region indeed. It will let the current Mainlanders, especially the younger generation understand how hard living these Chinese expat had gone through. There is an unhealthy bias against Chinese expat that they will be labelled with "non-patriotic".
well if they are not the citizen of mainland china and a citizen of other country...WHY THE HELL SHOULD THEY STILL BE PATRIOTIC TO THE MAINLAND CHINA? They should be patriotic to the land and country that they were born in not where their ancestor came from. Are you saying all overseas chinese must be patriotic to the CCP? This Is why the local and native people where overseas chinese stay did not fully trust their chinese citizen. Because a lot of you guys are not patriotic to where you live but still clinging on to your middle kingdom china when in reality you were born and raised in a different country! YOU SHOULD BE PROUD IF THE MAINLANDERS CHINESE CALL YOU UN PATRIOTIC BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN OF MAINLAND CHINA!
As an indonesian. I am quite suprised that we never known anything about this history. This is great.
You should be proud. It’s in Kalimantan Pontianak area 😉
@@FearlessPassport yes, i agree it should written in history book as heritage for the people of kalimantan, pontianak for special
Interestingly, the word kongsi becomes a verb in the Malay language, means to share.
Republic in old times is just sugarcoated term for 'perkampungan'. It just temporary settlement of certain people. It is not unusal across South East Asia having 'republic' by sailors. Kongsi even paid tributes to sultanate. It shows no sovereignity as it comes with unclear boundary of land also. "Why it is unkown that there is Lanfang Republic?" Because it is not yet a sovereign state. In old times, to be a sovereign state, it is important to have physical Regalia. Lanfang settlement has many signs of self governing but lack of regional recognition and symbol.
oh yeah.... a short lived republic of Proto-Singapore. In fact, many Lanfang citizens fled into a small outpost in the tip of Malay peninsula after the defeat of their republic against the Dutch
Nice content Iven, I'm curious about Singkawang Hakka variant...is it Haifeng or like you just mention on the video Banshanke ?
I think most are Dapu, Hepo and Jiaying Hakka 😊
Hai lu feng, my ancestor is one of the people from TA Kang kongsis.
Thank You Fearless Support for telling back the History most of us forgot.it will prevent all Borneo fight and having Civil war in the future.No war.make love.
我母親來自加里曼丹坤甸，還記得暑假回坤甸時，看到外公家裡面的時鐘感到好奇，於是提問外公時鐘裡面的人像是誰，外公說他是羅芳伯，是開墾坤甸的先賢，GOOGLE後才了解到，羅芳伯從嘉應來到婆羅洲開墾，並成立蘭芳共和國，成為大唐總理，蘭芳共和國可以說是亞洲第一成立的共和體制。
It is interesting to know about this history. Thanks for the sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the upload. I simply like it. Do you happen to have more insight of the Teochews and Hakka there. My later grandfather was a Lee, a Teochew and grandmother was Hakka, a Tjen. If you have any insights of such clans I am most grateful.
I found this state in EU4 and wondering what is lanfang state, they have confucian religion and chinese culture but their history is never writen in the Indonesian history books. I wonder why?
I am a Chinese indonesian but never know about this
Thank you very much, you just explained to me our entire ancestor time line. Im teochiu from west borneo. My wife is hakka from west borneo. Subscribe to you now.
This is really well done!
You are good!
Subscribed.
Thank You.
Another great video girl. Very informative and covered wide aspects of d minority factions .keep it up 👍👍.by year end u should b able to secure 100k+ subscribers 🙏🙏.
Thanks
Thanks Tan! 🤗
I love the story.
I heard 0f it from my grandparents when I was young.
Be careful. China might claim that area later on.
Lan fang republic is soveriegn from Ching dynasty but admited as tributary state like many other asean kingdom.
Unlike spratlies that everyone knew it belongs to ching dynasty at that time.
So china cannot claim them.
Love all your videos. Good job.
Thanks for sharing this information, hehe my dad is hakka, n my mom is tiociu, but our parent dont share a history like this hahahhaa... Our chinese history in our blood almost gone 😂
Sry for RIP english hahaha
@@dota2maxis972 No worries for your English, it's good!
Thamks ya. Very resourcefull
Thank you, very interesting ！
Is there any English, Malay, or Bahasa version of the literature telling this story?
Good to know. I was not aware of this history.
Did Lanfang migran married with dayaknese? Ngang surename is surname of my Dayak kenyah family but it is also chinese Surnames in Singapore Chinese community. I think in Singapore lanfang migrant also moved there to singapore.
Good info.. never knew about this history in Borneo..