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The Chinese Protectorate Building, Ipoh
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Subject :The Chinese Protectorate Building, Ipoh
Published By : Published by Perak Academy. Author: Khoo Salma Nasution & Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Location : Ipoh
Estimated Year : 1905
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Kinta Valley Book / ipohWorld Library
Remark :
As Ipoh was becoming the epicentre of Chinese crime, the Perak Chinese Protectorate moved to Ipoh from Taiping in 1905 (once the building was completed). The Chinese Protector was here to solve crimes, as well as brothel, sanitary and vagrant problems.
To read about William Cowan, ‘Protector of the Chinese’ Ipoh, click here.
To read about William Pickering, the First ‘Protector of the Chinese’, click here.
To read more about the book ‘Kinta Valley ’, click here.
Filename : KV-026