Ch'ien Mu (30 July 1895-), scholar, known for his works on Chinese intellectual history and philosophy and for his history textbook, Kuo-shih ta-kang. From 1951 to 1965 he served as president of New Asia College in Hong Kong. A native of Wusih, Kiangsu, Ch'ien Mu was born into a poor family. His father died when […]
Lin Wen-ch'ing (5 September 1869-1 January 1957), known as Lim Boon Keng, a successful doctor, entrepreneur, and public figure in Singapore who abandoned his lucrative career to serve as president of Amov Universitv from 1921 to 1937. Born in Singapore to a family of Fukien ancestry, Lim Boon Keng displayed such academic brilliance as a […]
Li Kuang-ch'ien (1894-2 June 1967), known as K. C. Lee, Fukienese entrepreneur who became a multi-millionaire in Singapore. His many business and financial interests in Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, and Indonesia included the Lee Rubber Company, which controlled about one-eighth of the total world trade in natural rubber in the 1950's. Nanan, Fukien, was the birthplace […]
Ch'en Yi 陳儀 Ch'en Yi (1883 - 18 June 1950), governor of Fukien (1934-41) and of Chekiang (1948-49) who, as first Chinese government administrator in Taiwan after 1945, launched a brutal suppression campaign against the Taiwanese when an island-wide revolt against his administration threatened to break out. He was executed as a Communist conspirator for […]
Ch'en Po-ta 陳伯達 Ch'en Po-ta (1905-) was known as one of the Chinese Communist party's leading spokesmen on international Communist affairs and the interpreter of the political thought of Mao Tse-tung in such works as Mao Tse-tung on the Chinese Revolution. He drafted many of the editorials in the Jen-min jih-pao [people's daily] and edited […]
Ch'en Chia-keng 陳嘉庚 Alt. Tan Kah Kee Ch'en Chia-keng (1874 - 12 August 1961 ) , known as Tan Kah Kee, Singapore rubber and shipping entrepreneur, used his profits to found Amoy University, which he singlehandedly supported for 15 years, and other schools in his native village of Chimei, Fukien. During the Sino- Japanese war, […]
