Two Accounts of the Chinese Rebellion.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Two Accounts of the Chinese Rebellion. |
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Author :
Bob Reece |
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Abstract:
One of the main sources of information about the 1857 Chinese Rebellion in Sarawak is the account by Harriette McDougall, wife of Bishop Francis McDougall, who played an active part in defeating it. They had arrived in Kuching in 1848 to pioneer a mission on behalf of the Borneo Mission Society (later to be taken over by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel- SPG) and by the time of the Rebellion were well established in the Mission House on the hill overlooking the river-side bazaar. A number of their students at the Mission School were the children of some 3,000 Chinese refugees who had fled from the fighting between the Dutch authorities and the autonomous kongsis of the Montrado area in 1850. Apart from supervising the Chinese school children, Harriette also adopted a young girl called Nietfong as a companion for her own younger daughter, Mab (Mary). Aiming to proselytise amongst the Chinese as well as the Dayaks, McDougall employed his principal teacher, Daniel Owen, to learn the Hakka dialect and to translate part of the Anglican church service. Owen also sent home a detailed account of the rebellion which was published first in the Cambridge Chronicle of 13 June 1857 and then as a pamphlet. An Account of the Borneo Rebellion. . . , long since forgotten.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Bob Reece. (1992). Two Accounts of the Chinese Rebellion. The Sarawak Museum Journal, XLIII (64): 265-292 |
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