Tsan Tai TSE (aka James See, Sing On, Hong-yu) [1872-1938] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Tsan Tai TSE (aka James See, Sing On, Hong-yu) [1872-1938]

Names
Given: 
Tsan Tai
Family: 
Tse
Alias / nickname: 
James See, Sing On, Hong-yu
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1872-05-16
Birthplace (town, state): 
Grafton, New South Wales
Birthplace (country): 
Death
Date: 
1938-04-04

Anti-Qing dynasty revolutionary and author of The Chinese Republic: Secret History of the Revolution (1924), co-founder (with Alfred Cunningham) of the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong in November 1903, airship designer and mercantile assistant of Thoresen & Co. Ltd

 

"IN MEMORIAM

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TSE TSAN TAI - In ever loving memory of our dearest father, James Tse Tsan Tai, who passed away on April 4, 1938. "Always in our thoughts."

 

Source: The China Mail, page 2, 4th April 1946

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1907

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Jurors List 1929

c Tse Tsan Tai Mercantile Assistant Thoresen & Co., Ld.     37 Queen's Road East  

 Jurors List 1930

c Tse Tsan Tai Mercantile Assistant Thoresen & Co., Ld.

 

 

37 Queen's Road East

 

 

Number 465 in Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography

There is a Wikipedia entry for Hong Kong resident TSE Tsan-Tai at this LINK here