Ah Chong, also spelled A Chong or Achong, is an English spelling of a Chinese familiar form of addressing a person whose given name contains the syllable Chong. Among overseas Chinese such forms of address sometimes became a person's legal name, and then were further transformed from a given name into the family name of their descendants. This occurred for example among ethnic Chinese in the Caribbean and in Samoa.[1][2][3]
People with the given name or nickname Ah Chong include:
- Panglima Ah Chong (So Ah Chong), 19th-century Chinese immigrant in Taiping, Perak, Malaya
- Khairul Anuar Baharom (born 1974), Malaysian footballer nicknamed Ah Chong
- Ah Chong Sam Chong, Samoan sprinter, represented Samoa at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
People with the family name Ah Chong or Achong include:
- Ellis Achong (1904–1986), Trinidadian cricketer
- Bert Achong (1928–1996), Trinidadian pathologist
- Sua Rimoni Ah Chong, Samoan politician
See also edit
- Ah Cheng (born 1949), Chinese screenwriter
References edit
- ^ Shibata, Yoshiko (2013). "Chinese in Anglophone Caribbean: Jamaica". In Tan, Chee-Beng (ed.). Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora. Routledge. pp. 364–5. ISBN 9781136230950.
- ^ Chan, Arlene (15 November 2011). The Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From outside to Inside the Circle. Dundurn. ISBN 9781459700949.
- ^ Tom, Nancy Y.W. (1986). The Chinese in Western Samoa 1875–1985. Western Samoa Historical & Cultural Trust. pp. 18–19.
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