The Peranakan Chinese (/pəˈrɑːnəˌkɑːn, -kən/) are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers...

Chinese; Chinese: 華人甲必丹; pinyin: Huárén Jiǎbìdān; Dutch: Kapitein der Chinezen; Spanish: Capitán Chino), was a high-ranking government position in the...

Nio (1825–1870), better known as Njonja Majoor Be Biauw Tjoan, was a Peranakan aristocrat of the 'Cabang Atas' elite of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)...

landlords, officials and community leaders, part of the ‘Tjabang Atas’ or the Peranakan Chinese gentry of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). For over a century...

marriages to two Peranakan Chinese magnates, Lauw Tek Lok, Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi and Sim Keng Koen, Kapitein der Chinezen of Sukabumi. The...

nineteenth-century magnate and mandarin Lauw Tek Lok, the first Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi (a high-ranking post in the civil bureaucracy) by the latter's...

was a niece of a Chinese officer, Jo Teng Kong, Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen; and many of Kan's children married into families of the 'Cabang Atas'...

Benteng or Orang Tionghoa Benteng) are a Chinese Indonesian community of 'Peranakan' or mixed descent, native to the historic Tangerang area in the modern-day...

and, later, bureaucrat Be Ing Tjioe, Majoor-titulair der Chinezen (1803–1857) by his ‘Peranakan’ wife, Tjoa Tjoe Nio. Be Biauw Tjoan had two younger brothers...

The Majoors der Chinezen of Batavia Tan Eng Goan, 1st Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia (1802—1872) Tan Tjoen Tiat, 2nd Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia (1816–1880)...

Han Chan Piet, Majoor der Chinezen (1759 – 1827), also spelt Han Tjan Piet or Han Tian Pit, was a Peranakan Chinese magnate, government official and landlord...

Han Bwee Kong, Kapitein der Chinezen (1727 – 1778), also known as Han Bwee Sing, Han Bwee Ko and in historic Dutch sources as Han Boeijko, was a Chinese-Indonesian...

controversial, ethnic-Chinese self-defense force Pao An Tui (1946–1949). He was a Peranakan of Chinese-Indonesian, Austrian and Javanese descent. In his political...

Kik Ko, Majoor der Chinezen, Regent van Probolinggo (1766 – 1813), also known as Han Tik Ko in European sources, was a Peranakan Chinese magnate, government...

or the Peranakan Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia. Many members of the family held the rank of Majoor, Kapitein and Luitenant der Chinezen in the...

aristocratic family of Peranakan Chinese and Javanese descent in the Dutch East Indies (today known as Indonesia). The Peranakan branch of the dynasty...

(1835–1900), who married a middle-class Peranakan woman; and the latter's Peranakan son Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen (1866–1924), who firmly sealed the...

Tan Gin Ho, Luitenant der Chinezen (1880–1941) was a bureaucrat, Malay-language writer and scion of the influential Tan family of Cirebon, part of the...

was a prominent public figure, statesman and patrician landowner of Peranakan Chinese descent in the Dutch East Indies (today known as Indonesia). He...

He is better known as the father of Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor-titulair der Chinezen (1866–1924), who modernized and vastly expanded the Oei family's business...

tradition of public service. Han was the son of Han Biauw Sing, Luitenant der Chinezen of Kutaraja in Aceh (in office from May 21, 1913, until September 12, 1918)...

and in the hill station of Sukabumi, West Java. The family is of mixed Peranakan Chinese and Indo-Bohemian descent. Following the Indonesian revolution...

notably its highest-ranking member: Khouw Kim An, the last Majoor der Chinezen ('Major of the Chinese') of Batavia (in office from 1910 until 1942). Although...

Oey Liauw Kong, Kapitein der Chinezen (1799–1865) was a Chinese-Indonesian high official, Landheer (landlord) and head of the Oey family of Kemiri, part...

Engku Chesterina was born into the Lauw-Sim-Zecha family, a prominent Peranakan family of the Cabang Atas or the Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia...

Luitenant der Chinezen on an honorary basis by the Dutch East Indies government. He was also apparently a Christian, somewhat unusually for Peranakan Chinese...

(Chinese: 陈永元), first Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia (1837–1865). Tan Tjoen Tiat (Chinese: 陈浚哲), second Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia (1865-1879). Thio Thiam...

Indonesia. His father, Phoa Tjeng Tjoan, held the post of Kapitein der Chinezen of Buitenzorg from 1866 until 1878. This was a civil government position...

Kapitein-titulair der Chinezen (1835–1895). Through his mother, Thio was therefore a direct descendant of Tan Yok Sing, Kapitein der Chinezen of Semarang (1737–1800)...

Khouw Kim An, 5th Majoor der Chinezen (Chinese: 許金安; pinyin: Xǔ Jīn'ān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘ Kim-an; 1875 – February 13, 1945) was a high-ranking Chinese Indonesian...