Rigel Kent

When did Yap Ah Shak pass away? Despite his prominent status as the Captain China of Kuala Lumpur, the exact date on which Yap Ah Shak 葉石 was pronounced dead is not something we can locate definitively in the English literature. The Straits Times ( 3 August 1889 , p. 2) tells us that: . . . in our late communication from Selangor reference has been made to the death of the Capitan China, Yeap Ah Shah, whose body now lies in state, according to the Chinese custom, in his Kuala Lumpur residence. This ceremony continues until the eighth month 1 in the Chinese calendar, when the last funeral obsequies will be completed . . . Yap Ah Shak was last mentioned in a road widening project together with Yap Kwan Seng 葉觀盛 in a document dated 5 June 1889. Thus, it is reasonable for us to posit the following calendrical bracket: 終(Yap) \(\in\) (5 June 1889, 3 August 1889) ...

The hyponym of Cheow Ah Yok 趙煜 榮 and Loke Yew 陸 如 佑 In 1860, Zhào Yùróng 趙煜榮 (b. 1843?, b. 2 November 1892) and his elder brother Zhào Yùxīng 趙煜興 (d. May 1891) managed to, after many weeks of sea travel, land themselves in Melaka. The Xinning 新寧 brothers were among the many thousands of sinkhehs 新客 who decided to venture into the unfamiliar world of Nanyang, as their homeland was ravaged by Opium Wars. The 17-year-old never imagined that he would eventually become the first Chinese magistrate in Kuala Lumpur 華人之長 when the executive power and judicial power of the Captain China were separated into two roles in 1885. Executive and judicial power split in 1885 (1957/0004273W). The death of Yap Ah Loy 葉德來 in the early morning of 15 April 1885 created a vacuum in the captaincy of Chinese community in Kuala Lumpur. The British Cheow Ah Yok was again considered by the British when Yap Ah Shak died in 1889. The Straits Times ( 3 Au...