Tun tan cheng lock biography examples

I went to Chowrasta Market (upstairs) in Penang to get some old books on Malaysia's history. I told the eldest-looking Mamu, "Saya mau itu buku sejarah ... History - Malayan independence. You kasi cari, saya mau beli". I'm not a history buff. I only read history to write something on history. Then I forget history altogether until another time I need to write another post on history. That is history to me.

Altogether, I have five books on Malayan & Malaysian history. They are heavy reading stuff for me. I bought them just to read about our Tunku, initially. The Tunku is well-liked by Malaysians.

I heard about Tunku when I was a little girl and when I first entered school in 1965 in Alor Star. Tunku was from Kedah. That time, I only knew his name.

My father told me about Tunku's wife, the Peranakan Arab wife, Sharifah Rodziah. At the time I was a teenager and we were driving home in Malacca. I don't remember much of what my father said but I remember he said the wife is a respectable lady in Malay circle. A newly opened religious school in Malacca was named in her honour. That's all I can remember of our conversation. At the time I had no idea what Tunku was like. He was just a name and a blank figure, but a rather 'nice man'.

I looked at photographs of the Malayan independence, in books and in my parent's collections, including one that had my pregnant mother - she was carrying my elder sister Sharifah at 7 months. It was drizzling during our independence day, and I could see umbrellas at Stadium Merdeka. I listened to cries of "Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka" once a while on radio and TV, especially close to our independence day - Merdeka. As schoolchildren, we too shouted "Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka" and thought nothing of it afterwards. Merdeka did not sink in at all - it was just a cry, and not more than that. I could not connect to the real meaning of Merdeka even after I was a young adult, enjoying life in Penang. Nobody c

by Ong Li Ling

I tagged along with the King’s College Alumni for a weekend tour of Malacca earlier this month. The highlight of the weekend was a walking tour conducted by Professor Johannes Widodo from the NUS School of Architecture. The tour started at the Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Asian Architectural and Urban Heritage located at 54-56 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock. A write-up on this Centre will be the first instalment of my “Professor Widodo Malacca Walking Tour” series.

Tun Tan Cheng Lock was a Baba Chinese. He was a leading member of the Straits Community and was the first elected president of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA). He contributed significantly in the field of education, social welfare and politics. The road was named to commemorate his many contributions.

The Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre is located in a townhouse along Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock. It was almost demolished 10 years ago as there was a proposal to create a walkway from the Kota Laksamana parking area to Jonker Walk. The plan to demolish this building failed due to the intervention of local NGOs.

This building was used as a maternity clinic for Dr Ong Bak Hin (one of the first Malaysian doctors who graduated in England) in 1920, Yeoh Maternity home in 1955, Aik Siow Clinic in 1977 and in 1980 as a rest house and subsequently a storage warehouse for Syarikat Abdul, an antique junk dealer. The two shoplots were sold in December 1992 to Tay Kheng Soon, a Singaporean architect,  and they were finally purchased by Miss Agnes Tan and bequeathed to the School of Architecture NUS.

A 1605 Portuguese map of Malacca shows that there was a market place where this building currently sits.

In a map dating 1663,  the location of building is where the orange box is. It is close to the sea which is at the bottom of the map.

All the yellow beams in the ceiling are original, but the brown wood is a replacement because the original wood was rotten.

The wall of the building almost colla

Malaysian politician, 1st President of the Malaysian Chinese Association

Not to be confused with Tan Cheng Bock.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tan (陳).

TunSirTan Cheng LockKBE, SMN, DPMJ, JP (simplified Chinese: 陈祯禄; traditional Chinese: 陳禎祿; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Cheng-lo̍k; pinyin: Chén Zhēnlù) (5 April 1883 – 13 December 1960) was a MalaysianPeranakan businessman and a key public figure who devoted his life to fighting for the rights and the social welfare of the Chinese community in Malaya. Tan was also the founder and the first president of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA), which advocated his cause for the Malayan Chinese population.

Background

Born on 5 April 1883, Tan was the third son of Tan Keong Ann (Chinese: 陳恭安; pinyin: Chén Gōngān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Kiong-an), who had seven sons and daughters, and was a fifth generationPeranakan-HokkienChinese Malaysian living at 111, Heeren Street (Malay: Jalan Heeren) in Malacca. His ancestor, Tan Hay Kwan (Chinese: 陳夏觀; pinyin: Chén Xiàguān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Hē͘-kuan), a junk owner and trader, had migrated to Malacca from Zhangzhou prefecture in Fujian Province, China in 1771. His grandfather, Tan Choon Bok (Chinese: 陳春木; pinyin: Chén Chūnmù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chhun-bo̍k), was very wealthy but he felt his four sons were unworthy to inherit his business empire and wealth and locked his assets in a family trust which ended 84 years after he died, in 1964. By then Tan Cheng Lock had been dead for four years. Tan Cheng Lock's father, Tan Keong Ann, was so devastated by his 'disinheritance' that he railed at his father's portrait daily and took to drink. He did not try to earn a living to support his family and instead lived off his annual allowance of $130 (Straits dollars) from the family trust in genteel poverty. Tan Cheng Lock refused to emu