Lie Kim Hok

Lie Kim Hok was a peranakan Chinese teacher, writer, and social worker. Born in Buitenzorg, West Java, Lie received his formal education in missionary schools. By the 1870s he was fluent in Sundanese, vernacular Malay, and Dutch. He published two books in the 1890s and, in 1900, became a founding member of the Chinese organisation Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan. Lie...