Tsui Tin-Chau (born 1958 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

) is a Chinese-born Dutchman who is well known in the Chinese community in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. His

ancestral home An ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family, particularly the home owned and preserved by the same family for several generations. The term can refer to an individual house or estate, or to a broader geographic area such as a ...

Zhongshan Zhongshan ( zh, c=中山 ), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Chungshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is n ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

. He emigrated to the Netherlands in 1972. After graduating from

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

, he completed his studies at the Katholieke pedagogische Academie (Catholic Pedagogical Academy) in Maastricht and his study in Chinese Languages and Cultures at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

. Tsui teaches Chinese in both secondary and

tertiary education Tertiary education (higher education, or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational schools ...

. In addition, he develops educational tools and teaching methods for Chinese language courses and Chinese language (weekend) schools. His course ''Chinees? 'n makkie'' (Chinese? Piece of cake) is well known. Until 2010, he was a teacher at Eijkhagen College/Charlemagne College in the Dutch province of Limburg. Tsui is known in the Chinese community in the Netherlands primarily because of the Chinese broadcast on the Dutch channel NPS, ''snelle berichten Nederland-China'' (Quick Messages Netherlands-China). From 1996 to 2005, he presented the Dutch course "''Aa Laa (alle) dingen Yeung Yeung Sóow/阿啦dingen樣樣數''" (“All things Yeung Yeung Sóow/阿啦things樣樣數"). He also presented the course "''Dag in dag uit Nederlands/荷语日日讲''" (Dutch every day 荷语日日讲). Together with Chow Yiu-Fai, Tsui hosted light-hearted summer programs like "''Yauw Moow Kôk Tsôh有冇搅错''".

Publications

In addition to teaching methods and educational tools, Tsui has published the following works: * T.C. Tsui (1995). ''Chinese Wijsheden en parallelle Nederlandse gezegdes in twee talen'' (Chinese wisdom and parallel Dutch sayings in two languages) * Geense, P. & T.C. Tsui (2001). Chinese: In: G. Extra & J.J. de Ruiter (red). ''Babylon aan de Noordzee. Nieuwe talen in Nederland'' (Babylon by the North Sea. New languages in the Netherlands).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsui, Tin-Chau 1958 births Living people 20th-century Chinese people Chinese emigrants to the Netherlands Dutch people of Hong Kong descent Hong Kong educators Language teachers

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