Capitan China
Capitan China noun: a Chinese official, boss, or headman, who had authority over Chinese workers in a foreign nation.
Noun
Capitan China (plural Capitans China)
- 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.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 352
- 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."1970, Nicholas Tarling, Studies in the Social History of China and South-east Asia, page 367
Forms of Capitan China
| plural | Capitans China |
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Questions about Capitan China
- What does Capitan China mean?
- Capitan China means a Chinese official, boss, or headman, who had authority over Chinese workers in a foreign nation.
- What part of speech is Capitan China?
- Capitan China is a noun.
- What is the plural of Capitan China?
- The plural of Capitan China is Capitans China.
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