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Aug 24, 2009 · The Malayan Chinese Association, 1948–65 - Volume 6 Issue 2. 12. See Tan Siew Sin (Chairman Publicity Subcommittee), Malayan Chinese Asciation Statement on Federal Citizenship (Kuala Lumpur, n. d. (1949)) Tan Siew Sin, son of Tan Cheng Lock, was born in Malacca 1916, and educated there and at Raffles College Singapore.
Apr 23, 2016 · Reception Hall, Tun Tan Cheng Lock's Ancestral Home (2 May, 2009) Tun Tan Cheng Lock's Ancestral Home (GPS: 2.1961, 102.24537) is a historic building along Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in Malacca. The double-storey house has a covered porch over the five-foot way. The double-leaf timber door is flanked by a couple of windows with shutters.
Tun Tan Cheng Lock later announced his retirement from politics. 1959 MCA organised a pan-Malayan Conference of Chinese Guilds and Associations on April 26 in Ipoh and unanimously passed the “General Demand on Education by The Chinese Community”.
OF TAN CHENG LOCK, TAN KAH KEE AND LIM LIAN GEOK1 Tan Liok Ее "Chineseness" is a category whose meanings are not fixed and pregiven, but constantly renegotiated and rearticulated, both inside and outside China." (Ien Ang, "To Be or Not to Be Chinese: Diaspora, Culture and Postmodern Ethnicity"2) I. Preamble
Comber, L 2003, Tun Dato Sir Tan Cheng Lock's role in shaping Malayan Chinese attitudes towards the Malays and the creation of a Malayan nation. in DC Ming & OK Beng (eds), Chinese Studies of the Malay World: A comparative approach. 1 edn, Eastern Universities Press, Singapore, pp. 189 - 203.
Tun Dato’ Sir Tan Cheng Lock was a Malaysian nationalist and founder of the MCA. He was the Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements from 1923 to 1934 and became the unofficial Member of the Governor’s Executive Council from 1933 to 1935. He founded the MCA and became the first president from 1949 to 1958.
Tun Tan Cheng Lock played a pivotal role in getting the British to agree to hold Malaya's first federal elections in 1955, the prelude to the granting of independence in 1957.
