Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent, vol. 2: A Biographical Dictionary

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Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent A Biographical Dictionary Volume II Glossary and Index The Chinese Heritage Centre was established in May 1995 to promote knowledge and understanding of people of Chinese descent outside China and their heritage through research, publications, conferences and exhibitions. It also houses the Wang Gungwu Library which has a specialized focus on the Chinese overseas and their heritage. As the first organization to specialize in the study of Chinese communities outside China, it is most appropriate that the Centre be housed in the former Nanyang University’s historic Administration Block, which itself is a relic of the landmark establishment of the first and only Chinese-medium university outside China founded by the ethnic Chinese. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an established academic press, has issued more than 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from within the region. ISEAS Publishing works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent A Biographical Dictionary Volume II Glossary and Index Edited by Leo Suryadinata INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES SINGAPORE First published in Singapore in 2012 by ISEAS Publishing Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 E-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg Website: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.© 2012 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the authors and their interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the publishers or their supporters. ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese descent : a biographical dictionary / edited by Leo Suryadinata. 1. Chinese—Southeast Asia—Biography—Dictionaries. 2. Chinese—Southeast Asia—Biography. I. Suryadinata, Leo, 1941– DS523.4 C5S721 2012 ISBN 978-981-4414-13-5 (hard cover : v. 2) ISBN 978-981-4414-14-2 (ebook, PDF : v. 2) Typeset by Superskill Graphics Pte Ltd Printed in Singapore by Mainland Press Pte Ltd ...