Tse Tsan-tai
Tse Tsan-tai | |
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謝纘泰 | |
Born | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 16 May 1872
Died | 4 April 1938 | (aged 65)
Occupation(s) | South China Morning Post founder government servant |
Era | Imperial China |
Known for | Anti-Qing Revolutionary Author Writer |
Tse Tsan-tai (
Early life
Born in Grafton, New South Wales, to Tse Yat-cheong (謝日昌) who was a Chinese nationalist, Tse Tsan-tai was baptised "James See" on 1 November 1879. His family was on close terms with the family of Vivian Chow Yung, another prominent Chinese-Australian from Grafton.[1] In 1887, Tse moved to Hong Kong with his family and he was educated at The Government Central School (now the Queen's College).[2] Afterwards Tse worked as a secretary in the Public Works Department of the Government of Hong Kong for nearly 10 years.
Interest in airships
Tse claimed to have invented and designed the world's first steerable
Maxim responded to Tse that he was already in possession of Tse's “secrets”. The ‘secrets’ Maxim referred to were, coincidentally, revealed that same year with the launching in Germany of Count Zeppelin’s first giant rigid airship. Zeppelin's progress was already more advanced than Tse, having first started planning these ships as early as 1874. He patented the design in 1895, long before Tse had started his own designs.
As an anti-Qing dynasty revolutionary
On 13 March 1892, Tse, together with
After Yeung was assassinated by Qing agents in 1901, Tse strove for his burial in the
As a newspaper person, Tse wrote the first declaration of the Revive China Society, with an open letter to the Guangxu Emperor in English.[citation needed] He also published The Situation in the Far East (時局全圖) to warn patriots against the Western powers' ambition to partition China. In November 1903, Tse co-founded the South China Morning Post with Alfred Cunningham.[5]
Tse was also a Christian, and published a book entitled The Creation, the Garden of Eden and the Origin of the Chinese in 1914. In it, he argued that the Garden of Eden was located in modern-day Xinjiang and that many Biblical events and narratives occurred within China's vicinity.[6]
After the revolution
After the
References
- ISBN 978-0-86840-870-5.
- ^ Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (2006) Connected Worlds - History in Transnational Perspective
- ^ The Far Eastern Review January 1908: “China & the Conquest of Air”
- ^ Schiffrin, Harold Z (1968). Sun Yat-sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. University of California Press.
- ^ South China Morning Post history
- ^ "The Garden of Eden - in China?". 2 October 2012.