[1][2][3] As government bureaucrats, landlords and politicians, his descendants played an important role in the colonial history of Indonesia.
[1] His first attested ancestor is Han Zhaode, a general in the army of the warlord Tan Goan-kong (died 711), who pacified Fujian for the Tang dynasty (618–907).
[1] Around 1700, Han Siong Kong left his native country for Lasem, a port on the north coast of Java island.
[4] Two of their sons, Ngabehi Soero Pernollo and Han Bwee Kong, Kapitein der Chinezen, would play a significant role in establishing and consolidating Dutch colonial rule in East Java.
[1] The displeased spirit of Han Siong Kong is said to have cast down a curse on his descendants who dared settle down in Lasem.