Tan Lark Sye
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Tan Lark Sye was a prominent Chinese businessman and philanthropist based in Singapore.
Tan in 1950
Hoklo people
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The Hoklo people are a Han Chinese sub-ethnic group who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, or trace their ancestry to southeastern Fujian in China, and known by various related terms such as Banl
Tan Lark Sye
…Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân La̍k-sài; 7 June 1897 – 11 September 1972) was a prominent Chinese businessman and philanthropist based in Singapore. Tan was born in a Hoklo peasant family of seven in Jimei of Tong An in Fujian, China. Born into of very limited means, and orphaned young, he had little chance of an education…
A Hokkien family in Southern Fujian, 1910
Khoo Kongsi, the largest Hokkien clan house in Malaysia.
Fujian Assembly Hall in Malacca, Malaysia
Fujian Assembly Hall in Vietnam, Hoi An