22Charles François Tombe, a French combat engineer, who worked in Batavia for the Dutch Government in the early 1800s, left a description of the Gunung Sari Cemetery he visited on the occasion of the Qingming festival:37 37Charles-François Tombe, Voyage aux Indes Orientales pendant les années 1...

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Plate 2 – Stele commemorating the foundation of the Gunung Sari Cemetery in 1761 碑文2——纪念1761年贡贡墓地奠基 Photo: C. Salmon, 2015 照片：C.鲑鱼，2015年 13Other cemeteries opened elsewhere too, in particular in the region of Kramat, where the German naturalist Junghuhn (1809-1864) reported the existence...

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Ancient Chinese Cemeteries of IndonesiaAncient Chinese Cemeteries of Indonesia as Vanishing Landmarks of the Past (17th-20th c.) ENGLISHFRANÇAIS Despite the incessant expenditures over time, both individually and collectively, by the Chinese of Indonesia to conserve and secure their graves, th...

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