Walter Henry Medhurst
During the 19th century, Walter Henry Medhurst made a reference in his academic work "A Dictionary of the Hok-Këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language" that "âng mô" ("red haired"), generally applied to the English people. With the large migration of the Hoklo south, mostly to Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, the term "ang moh" became more widespread and was used to refer to white people in general.