Capitan China

English Etymology en is this modelled on Capitan Pasha? or from Spanish? Noun Capitan China Capitans China en historical A Chinese official, boss, or headman, who had authority over Chinese workers in a foreign nation. en 1887 Harriet W. Daly Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia 352 The "Capitan China" is a personage always met and very much looked up to, on the tin mines all over the Malayan Peninsula. en 1970 Nicholas Tarling Studies in the Social History of China and South-east Asia 367 Choa Mah Soo was made Capitan-China in Klias and Mempakul, Pope-Hennessy later claiming that he had "induced the Sultan to restore the old system of "Capitans China" and to treat the Chinese well." See also en Capitan Pasha