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Capitan China

noun

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  1. A Chinese official, boss, or headman, who had authority over Chinese workers in a foreign…

    A Chinese official, boss, or headman, who had authority over Chinese workers in a foreign nation.

    • The "Capitan China" is a personage always met and very much looked up to, on the tin mines all over the Malayan Peninsula.
    • Choa Mah Soo was made Capitan-China in Klias and Mempakul, Pope-Hennessy later claiming that he had "induced the Sultan to restore the old system of "Capitans China" and to treat the Chinese well."

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