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Oey Tiang Tjoei
Oey Tiang Tjoei (Simplified Chinese characters, Chinese: 黄长水; 1893 – 1977) was an Indonesian journalist, known for being a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence. Prior to the Pacific War, he was a prominent supporter of Japanese Pan-Asianism. Biography Oey was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia on 1893, and he received a Dutch education. He later became influenced by Japanese Pan-Asianism, and joined the Hoo Hap secret society where he was its leader in the 1930s. In 1939, he joined the newly formed ''Hong Po'' newspaper as a director. With the Second Sino-Japanese War then ongoing, most Chinese Indonesian newspapers at that time actively raised funds for war victims and adopted an anti-Japanese stance. ''Hong Po'', however, was strongly pro-Japan. Due to this, a competing Chinese Indonesian newspaper, ''Keng Po (newspaper), Keng Po'', nicknamed it ''Bohong Po'' ("News of Lies"). Oei took the nickname as an insult, and he physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplified Chinese Characters
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters used in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore, as prescribed by the ''Table of General Standard Chinese Characters''. Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one of the two standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the People's Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s to encourage literacy. They are officially used in the People's Republic of China, Malaysia and Singapore, while traditional Chinese characters still remain in common use in Hong Kong, Macau, ROC/Taiwan and Japan to a certain extent. Simplified Chinese characters may be referred to by their official name above or colloquially . In its broadest sense, the latter term refers to all characters that have undergone simplifications of character "structure" or "body", some of which have existed for millennia mainly in handwriting alongsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
