What turned you away from PAP?
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Originally posted by angel7030:
CKS is stupid, LKY more cleverer, hold more power and live longer
So you rather admire and support an evil man. LKY is scheming enough to stay on, live longer to suck more money from us/. Does your prostitutes pubs pay lesser tax since you gave him praise that he is cleverer , hold more power and live longer.
BTW, you are using broken English. There is no such word as cleverer in English.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 25:
I don't know about other people and groups.
But what I do know is that the chinese people in Singapore certainly don't need the PAP to prosper.
That is what I know.
The largest Chinese dialect group in the late nineteenth century were the Hokkien, who were traditionally involved in trade, shipping, banking, and industry.
The next largest group, the Teochiu, engaged in agricultural production and processing, including gambier, pepper, and rubber production, rice and lumber milling, pineapple canning, and fish processing.
Cantonese served as artisans and laborers and a few made their fortunes in tin.
The two smallest groups, the Hakka and Hainanese, were mostly servants, sailors, or unskilled laborers.
Because wealth was the key to leadership and social standing within the Chinese community at that time, the Hokkien dominated organizations such as the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and supplied most of the Chinese members of the Legislative Council and the Chinese Advisory Board.
http://countrystudies.us/singapore/6.htm
Tan Kah Kee —"Henry Ford of Asia"
A Double Portion of Tan’s Spirit
Innovative education is of course nothing new at XMU. Our university has been pioneering all elements of modern education ever since it was founded in 1921 by the “Henry Ford of Asia,” Mr. Tan Kah Kee. This famous Overseas Chinese patriot gave an estimated USD 100 million to education, thanks his business acumen and frugal lifestyle. But Mr. Tan left us much more than mere money.
As I teach in Organizational Behavior, organizations’ personalities often reflect those of their founders, and XMU is certainly no exception. XMU’s 85 years of success show it has inherited a double portion of Mr. Tan’s spirit and vision for a better China, a better Asia, and a better humanity.
Our university’s founder, Mr. Tan Kah Kee (Chen Jiageng, 1874-1961), gave an estimated 100 million USD to education over his lifetime but he was born into a humble family of merchants in the village of Jimei, on the mainland across from Xiamen Island. Tan worked the fields and the fishnets until he started school at the age of nine, and in the fall of 1890 he moved to Singapore to help in his father’s rice shop. His father’s business went under in 1904, but the savvy son pulled together enough capital to buy 500 acres of forested land in Singapore and started a pineapple plantation.
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The Rubber Magnate Tan rapidly expanded into rice milling, manu-facturing, sawmills, real estate, and ocean transport, but it was rubber that really stretched his fortune. He set aside a few acres of his pineapple planta-tion and eventually had 10,000 acres of rubber trees. His expansion from rubber planting to rubber manufacturing helped create the rubber industry and made him one of the four great Rubber Barons.
By the mid 1920s, the Rubber Magnate’s Singapore-based empire em-ployed over 30,000 people, had 150 offices on 5 continents, and did business with 48 countries. But prices plummeted after 1926 and rubber never quite bounced back. Even worse, after Mr. Tan protested Japan’s brutal “Jinan Massacre” (May 3rd, 1928), his factory was burned to the ground. Yet even as he struggled through the Great Depression he continued to finance Jimei School, Xiamen University, and Chinese and English schools in Singapore—a feat he managed in part because of his frugality.
The Frugal Philanthropist Rich philanthropists generally give but a fraction of their wealth while alive, but leave behind large foundations since the only thing they can take with them when they die is their reputation. But Mr. Tan quite literally gave like a prince while living like a pauper, subsisting on little more than rice porridge and potatoes, and using the same umbrella and battered suitcases for decades. Other rich Chinese of his day built luxurious villas on nearby Gulangyu Islet, but Mr. Tan contented himself with a sim-pler home in his native Jimei. As he wrote to a relative, his hometown still had great needs and “I cannot put myself before the community.”
The Japanese destroyed Tan’s home in 1938, and when the Chinese government offered to rebuilt it after Liberation, Tan insisted that war-damaged school buildings be rebuilt first. His home was finally renovated in 1955 and he lived there from 1958 until 1960, when he moved to Beijing. Tan’s house was restored to its original design in 1980 and is now a museum and meeting place for the Jimei School Committee. I think the most moving exhibits are the battered suitcases, umbrellas and worn-out shoes that the “pauper millionaire” used for decades.
Mr. Tan’s Vision for China Mr. Tan was a social and political reformer from youth. He supported Sun Yat-sen, and at one point accounted for about 1/3 of the Kuomintang’s finances (a feat he no doubt regretted when Chiang Kai Shek absconded to Taiwan with his money and everyone else’s). But Tan’s greatest hope for China was in modern education.
In 1894, at age 21, Tan began
a family school in Jimei. In 1912, during the first year of the new
Republic of China, Tan returned to China and on January 27, 1913
opened the Jimei Primary School. Between 1920 and 1926 he opened a
school a year until Jimei School Village had 11 schools, includ-ing
a middle school and schools in agriculture, commerce, forestry,
navigation, etc. In addition, Jimei School Village’s education
promotion department donated to more than 70 middle schools and
primary schools throughout Fujian province.
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Supporting Education Abroad Tan also began or funded at least seven schools in Singapore, including Tao Nan (1907), Ai Tong (1912), Chung Fook Girls School (1915), Chung Poon (1915), the Singapore Chi-nese High School (1918), Nanyang Normal School (1941) and Nan Chaio Girls High School (1947). . His largesse was not limited to Chinese schools. He gave $30,000 to the Anglo-Chinese School in 1919 and in 1941 gave $10,000 to Raffles College, which later merged with the Medical College and eventually became the University of Singapore.
Xiamen University—Apple of Tan’s Eye In early November, 1920, Mr. Tan offered
one million Yuan to start Xiamen University, which
began with the Normal and Commerce Departments, and later expanded
to five Colleges and 17 departments in Literature, Science, Law,
Commerce and Education. Xiamen University captured the imagination
of Chinese and foreigners alike. In the 1920s, Paul Hutchinson
wrote,Mr. Tan emphasized quality education. He sent students abroad, hired teachers from other areas, purchased the latest equipment, and emphasized sports. By the spring of 1937, his financial fortunes had so suffered that he allowed the government to take over Xiamen University, but he continued to subsidize it. Tan wrote to the minister of education that he had had “a fine start and a poor finish,” and would “live in perpetual regret.” [If only he could see XMU today!]
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XMU Retreats to Changting That same year, Xiamen University relocated to Changting in West Fujian to escape destruction by the Japanese, who had occupied Xiamen. [Read more in the next chapter, “Sa Bendong”]. The Japanese surrendered in August, 1945, and on October 21, 500 mass organizations in Singapore welcomed Tan’s return from a decade of exile in Java. A large meeting in Chongqing on November 18, 1945, celebrated Mr. Tan’s safety, and Chairman Mao inscribed a scroll about Tan which read, “Banner of Overseas Chinese, Glory of the Nation.”
XMU returned to Xiamen after Japan’s defeat and the new president and eminent biologist, Dr. Wang Deyao, immediately set out rebuilding and ex-panding the campus. Tan’s vision and money and Wang’s leadership paid off. XMU was designated a key national university in 1962 and has been mushrooming ever since.
On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao invited Mr. Tan to Tiananmen to participate in the ceremony of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Tan settled down in his homeland in 1950 and devoted the rest of his life and fortune to its reconstruction.
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Tan’s Final Years During his last years Mr. Tan served in many posts, including Chairman of Returning Overseas Chinese League, Member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC. He was also responsible for innovations like China’s first sea-spanning bridge (the award-winning Xiamen-Jimei bridge), the Jimei Dragon Boat Pool, which has hosted numerous domestic and international aquatic events, and Jimei’s 15 storey Nanyuan Building, which has a navigational light on the roof to guide fishermen safely home.
Mr. Tan died of cancer in 1961, and after a State Funeral in Beijing, a special train transported his body to his hometown of Jimei. Tan left behind three million Yuan in banks, but the man who gave like a prince and lived like a pauper evidently expected his descendants to do the same—or make their own fortune. He left no money to his family, but gave half a million to Jimei School Foundation, half a million to construct Beijing’s Overseas Chinese Museum, and over two million Yuan for education.
Tan’s International Legacy Altogether, Mr. Tan gave an estimated 100 million USD towards education, both in China and abroad, and the Tan Kah Kee Foundation has been awarding a Postgraduate Scholarship since 1983. In 1986, Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. C.N. Yang set up the Tan Kah Kee Inventors’ Award, and in 1992, Prof Yang and two other Nobel Prize Laureates, Prof Samuel C.C. Ting and Prof Li Yuan Tseh, together with Prof Changlin Tien, former Vice-chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, and Prof Wang Gungwu, former President of Hong Kong University, set up the Tan Kah Kee International Society Foundation to the advancement of education and culture in the spirit of Tan Kah Kee.
In 1991, Singapore’s president, Dr. Wee Kim Wee,
launched the University Endowment Fund in honor of Mr. Tan, and set
a goal of raising 1$ billion for education. On 11 March, 1990, the
International Asteroid Center of China named Asteroid 2963 “Tan Kah
Kee Star.” The naming ceremony was held at Xiamen University.
Lastly, the School of Chemistry in my home state’s University of California, Berkeley, has a “Tan Kah Kee Hall.” I hope more and more foreigners and Chinese alike will come to understand, and emulate, Tan Kah Kee’s spirit of sacrificial giving.
“A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.” Lin YutangWhere do u find all these stuff?
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i feel that education espically in poly and university is too expensive.
and the intake for uni is damm small.
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
i feel that education espically in poly and university is too expensive.
and the intake for uni is damm small.
that is the reason why you turn away from the PAP?
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Originally posted by sgdiehard:
that is the reason why you turn away from the PAP?
more than that.
housing prices, mrt breakdowns, rise of the price of food....
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
more than that.
housing prices, mrt breakdowns, rise of the price of food....
your problem now solved?
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Originally posted by sgdiehard:
your problem now solved?
nope
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Damn lot of problems.
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
i feel that education espically in poly and university is too expensive.
and the intake for uni is damm small.
How much you want to pay?
$99.90 per semester?
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Originally posted by charlize:
How much you want to pay?
$99.90 per semester?
Education shouldn't be made for profits.
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
Education shouldn't be made for profits.
Professors and lecturers do not live on fresh air alone.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Professors and lecturers do not live on fresh air alone.
i am talking about profits.
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
i am talking about profits.
I am talking about professors.
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When discussed about their salary, talk and defend three days.
When ask about polytechnic bus concession, scared of 48 million loss.
When given them the mandate, rewarded with more and more price increase.
Latest increase is school fee in poly and Uni.
Who is actually paying ? Local sponsoring FT ?
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
When discussed about their salary, talk and defend three days.
When ask about polytechnic bus concession, scared of 48 million loss.
When given them the mandate, rewarded with more and more price increase.
Latest increase is school fee in poly and Uni.
Who is actually paying ? Local sponsoring FT ?
Life is tough.
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Originally posted by charlize:
I am talking about professors.
n all of u talking to a 14 yo gal about politics..... -
What turned you away from PAP?
You let this anglophile banana bastard Harry Lee Kuan Yew run Singapore which is 75% chinese.
The outcome for them...become stifled or retarded...headache....
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
You let this anglophile banana bastard Harry Lee Kuan Yew run Singapore which is 75% chinese.
The outcome for them...become stifled or retarded...headache....
Why you always so angry?
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Originally posted by charlize:
Why you always so angry?
because lky destory the chinese culture of singapore
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
because lky destory the chinese culture of singapore
I don't think so le.
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Originally posted by charlize:
I don't think so le.
why not?
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Originally posted by charlize:
I don't think so le.
its true if you observe his post.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
why not?
I still don't think so.
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I kinda enjoy talking about polictics.
Because i am upset about the system, i am a "on the edge express" student, i am very poor, cannot ask for special help like top tution teachers, i very bad in studies, i hate life...
my sister scolds me for wasting money while she has contact lenses and go shopping in cotton on.
i buy $10 mag(reader digest) she not happy, say her $3 cleo mag better.
whats the logic here. -.-
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
I kinda enjoy talking about polictics.
Because i am upset about the system, i am a "on the edge express" student, i am very poor, cannot ask for special help like top tution teachers, i very bad in studies, i hate life...
my sister scolds me for wasting money while she has contact lenses and go shopping in cotton on.
i buy $10 mag(reader digest) she not happy, say her $3 cleo mag better.
whats the logic here. -.-
hate life, waste money, $3 cleo mag.
That's politics.