Interestingly, our earlier form four history textbook second edition published by dewan bahasa dan pustaka in 1979 provides a detailed account about three pages of yap ah loy s role in developing kuala lumpur. Yap ah loy credited as the founder in textbooks, and raja abdullah. This site is about the story of kapitan cina chinese captain yap ah loy, the man who governed the city of kuala. Today, sunday star takes a look at the man that is yap ah loy and his. Yap ah loy and raja abdullah sailed up the kelang river to the confluence of the kelang and gombak rivers. Yap ah loy 187 served as vehicles for ongoing interpretations of ideology and morality. Also the brief chapter on founding of kuala lumpur by chinese capitan yap ah loy and its early years which saw the biggest battle ever fought on malaysian soil known battle of ampang where malay aristocrats threw their support behind the chinese gangsters.
Malaysian history textbooks ranjit singh malhi what. Jm gullick in his book the story of kuala lumpur 18571993 described yap ah loy as mr kuala lumpur until 1879, before the british stepped. Critics have argued, for instance, that the secondgrade history textbook underplays the role of yap ah loy, the chineseorigin. Yap ah loy left china via macau for british malaya in 1854. Kapitan china yap ah loy also known as yap tet loy and yap mao lan, is an important figure. His parents lived in the town of danshuitamsui chinese. That was where they decided the first tin mine would be opened.
Yap ah loy died in the middle of april 1885 and in 18851886, after consulting representatives of different dialect groups in kuala lumpur, the british chose yap. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive. Textbooks for other grades are also under scrutiny. Gullicks history of kl, of which there were several versions, he shares. New book sheds light on yap ah loys contender for kl founder title. Yap ah loy was born in guangdong formerly known as canton province, southern china on 14 march 1837. Kuala lumpur should be given its place in history textbooks.
Department of history, national university of singapore. But his book entitled the story of kuala lumpur 78577939, published in 1983, is too sketchy. Yap ah loy, leader of the chinese community of kuala lumpur, who was largely responsible for the. Names like wan datuk saman, raja mahdi, tengku kudin and. They disembarked at where the masjid jamek now stands and trekked overland to ampang. Yap ah loy then brought in boatloads of chinese labourers from china to work the tin mines. Five out of 10 chapters, for example, deal with islamic history. Historicaldata on kuala lumpur university of malaya. The involvement of the chinese in malaysias agriculture. The chinese have long and deep roots in this nations agriculture history.
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