Sia (title)

Sia (Chinese: 舍; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sià; pinyin: Shè; Javanese: Sio) was a hereditary, noble title of Chinese origin, used mostly in colonial Indonesia. It was borne by the descendants of Chinese officers, who were high-ranking, Chinese civil bureaucrats in the Dutch colonial government, bearing the ranks of Majoor, Kapitein or Luitenant der Chinezen (see: Kapitan Cina).

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