Kwee Tek Hoay

Kwee Tek Hoay, one of the most prolific and best loved peranakan writers of the pre-WWII period, was born in West Java. His most known writing today is The Origins of the Modern Chinese Movement in Indonesia. Early in his adult life, he became a journalist for a number of Chinese-owned Malay-language newspapers and published a number of journals with articles ranging from politics to religion and history, as well as his own literary works. Novels were only a part of Kwee Tek Hoay’s phenomenal literary works; he also wrote plays, poetry, and essays on many different subjects.