Title: Endearing Memories: My life through the 50’s<   宝贵的回忆：我所经历的五十年代   Speaker: Mr Alex Tan Tiong Hee  

 

Date: July 6, 2013 Saturday
 
Time: 7:30pm
 
Venue: Chui Huay Lim Club ( Level 4)
No 190, Keng Lee Road
Singapore 308409
Tel: 65-6253 0111

 

No registration required. Seats are limited. Seats are available on the first-come, first-served basis. Kindly please be seated 15 minutes before the talk.

With the ending of World War II, the British returned to once again govern Singapore. The world around was changing and in Asia the countries of India, Burma, Philippines and Indonesia gained freedom from its colonial master. The independent movements gave rise to political awareness among Singapore’s local worthies who too wanted autonomy for Singapore.
 
In China, a civil war was fought that ended with the communist victory in 1949. With China under communism, it made an impact on the students of Chinese schools and political activists in Singapore. This gave rise to industrial strikes and riots.
 
When a new war was fought in Korea in 1950 with the North invading the South, a rubber boom took place that made millionaires out of rubber traders in Singapore.
 
With these as backdrop, Alex Tan will recall the events and people that were etched in his memories in his growing up years in the decade of the 50’s.
 

Speaker’s bio:
Alex Tan Tiong Hee graduated with a law degree from England. He also earned several diplomas in commerce and management from England. He is very close to his father Tan Yeok Seong who was a scholar as well as a publisher of educational textbooks for schools in Singapore.
 
It is this closeness with his father that made him look after his father’s business affairs and also his father’s academic interests which included the guardianship of the collection of books and materials on Southeast Asian history and studies which was donated to the National Library and now displayed in the Lee Kong Chian Reference Room.
 
Alex Tan is a Trustee of the Settlement of Dr Lim Boon Keng (1921), a trust institution set up by Lim Boon Keng for the purpose of education.