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Kan Hok Hoei Sia (January 6, 1881 - March 1, 1951), generally known as Hok Hoei Kan or in short H. H. Kan, was a prominent public figure, statesman, patrician and landowner of Peranakan Chinese descent in the Dutch East Indies. He was a leading member of the Volksraad, and advocated cooperation with the Dutch colonial state in order to attain racial and legal equality for the colony's Chinese community. ==Family and Early Life== Kan was born Han Khing Tjiang Sia in Batavia into the city's Chinese gentry or ''baba bangsawan''. His father, Han Oen Lee, served as Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi, and hailed from the Han family of Lasem - probably Java's most ancient and most storied Chinese lineage. The family had been part of the scholar-gentry of Imperial China since the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD), and was first elevated to the Chinese Captaincy of colonial Java in the early eighteenth century. His mother, Kan Oe Nio, was one of Batavia's richest heiresses, and daughter of the famed tycoon and landowner, Kan Keng Tjong, later elevated by the Chinese Imperial Government to the rank of mandarin of the third grade. Han Khing Tjiang was adopted by his childless uncle, Kan Tjeng Soen, renamed Kan Hok Hoei and declared the principal heir of the great fortune of his maternal grandfather. As a descendant of a long line of Chinese Officieren, Kan was styled ''Sia'' from birth. He had a thoroughly European upbringing, and was schooled at the Europeesche Lagere School (ELS) and the prestigious Koning Willem III School te Batavia (KW III). In 1899, he was married off to his first cousin, Lie Tien Nio, daughter of Lie Tjoe Hong, titular Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia, and - like her husband - a grandchild of Kan Keng Tjong. The couple had 8 children. Kan applied and obtained legal equality with Europeans (''gelijkgesteld'') in 1905, after which he was universally known as Hok Hoei Kan or H. H. Kan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hok Hoei Kan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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