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

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

1 & 3 Wyndham Street [c.1865-c.1920]

Date Place completed: 
c.1865-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1920-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

A three storey building on Wyndham Street, with two shop fronts facing the street. Numbered 1&3 on the 1901 map. Does not appear in Beato's 1860 photos of the area but is present in Floyd's late 1860s photos. Replaced by the South China building in the 1920s  

Star Ferry terminal, Central, Hong Kong, 1904

Text on Flickr: Scanned from “Post Impressions”, 2004, South China Morning Post Publishing Ltd, Hong Kong.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1904

Blake’s Pier, Hong Kong, 1922 – arrival of the Prince of Wales.

Text on Flickr: Scanned from “Post Impressions”, 2004, South China Morning Post Publishing Ltd, Hong Kong.

Info from "The Prince of Wales Eastern Book"

(https://ia902605.us.archive.org/23/items/princeofwaleseas00philrich/prin...)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1922

WEST POINT MURDER: Young Boy Stabbed to Death

CRIMINAL SESSIONS: The Catchick Street Affair

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