Chan Tseng-hsi
Chinese businessman
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Chan Tseng-hsi[1] (Chinese: 陳曾熙; pinyin: Chén Zēngxī; abbreviated as T.H. Chan; 1923 – 8 March 1986) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur who founded the Hong Kong–based real estate company Hang Lung Group.[2]
1923
Chan Tseng-hsi T.H. Chan | |
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陳曾熙 | |
| Born | Chan Tseng-hsi 1923 Guangdong, China |
| Died | 8 March 1986 (aged 62–63) |
| Occupation | Property developer |
| Known for | Co-founder of the Hang Lung Group |
| Children | Ronnie Chan Gerald Chan |
Born and raised in the province of Guangdong, China, Chan moved to British Hong Kong in the 1940s because of the Chinese Civil War. He took an entry-level job in a bank[which?] and eventually built a successful real estate business. According to his son Gerald, he used to loan money to his friends to pay for their children's school fees. His wife, Tan Chingfen, was a nurse who, in the 1950s, gave cholera vaccinations to the neighbourhood children in the family kitchen.[3]
After Gerald got a fellowship for his doctoral studies at Harvard, Chan was proud of his son, but disturbed that Gerald was taking the place of someone who could not pay. He told a friend, "We have the means to pay tuition. Why is Gerald taking the scholarship away from someone else?"[3]
UMass Chan Medical School is named after him and the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing is named after his wife because of a donation from his family in his memory.[4]
