Tan Kah-Kee : the making of an overseas Chinese legend
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Tan Kah-Kee : the making of an overseas Chinese legend
Oxford University Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p365-379. - Includes index
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Tan Kah-Kee was born in 1874 in the Fukien province of China and as a young man emigrated to Singapore, where he lived for over 50 years. By the time he died in 1961 he had become a folk hero not only in Singapore but also in the rest of South-East Asia and in China, as a pioneer industrialist, philanthropist, social reformer, supporter of movements advancing socio-political change and, above all, as a patriarch. For a Chinese in South-East Asia to make good is commonplace. What is unique in Tah Kah-Kee's case is that he used his wealth and power to help his people. He was, for example, the only Chinese ever to have single-handedly founded a private university (Amoy University) and he became the rallying point of overseas Chinese opposition to the Japanese invasion of China and, subsequently, of South-East Asia. He mixed on equal terms with colonial officials, Chinese generals and Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, and played the role of father and leader of the community of overseas Chinese in South-East Asia for much of the first half of the present century. He was undoubtedly one of the most selfless and public-spirited of all the Overseas Chinese of his time.
This biography describes the life and achievements of this remarkable man against the background of revolution and war in China and social and political upheaval in South-East Asia, and illustrates how Tan Kah-Kee became a leading figure in modern Asian history and the legend he is today among the Chinese.
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