Hokchia

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Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. Folks there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster.

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Fuzhou is the dialect of those from around Fuzhou city in the northern tip of Fujian, Hokchia is the closely related dialect of those from the area around nearby Fuqing, and Henghua is the dialect of those from the Putian area, also in northern Fujian

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Members of these groups can be found everywhere but most of Southeast Asia’s Fuzhou Chinese are to be found in Malaysia, particularly in Sarawak, and most of the Hokchia are to be found in Indonesia.

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In 1990, for the first time since leaving in 1981, He went back and, together with his younger brother, who had remained in Fuqing, invested in an electric wire company. He stresses that he was one of the first to invest in Fuqing after the investments made by Liem Sioe Liong, the Indonesian Hokchia tycoon.

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