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Han Tiauw Tjong dapat dikatakan
memiliki sejarah yang lengkap. Aktivis organisasi, pendidikan tinggi yang
mencapai gelar doktor dan juga politisi di dewan. Han Tiauw Tjong sebagai
berpendidikan tinggi juga aktif mengajar. Sejarah yang lengkap seperti Han
Tiauw Tjong tidak banyak, ada beberapa antara lain Mr Dr Hoesein Djajadiningrat
(gelar doktor 1913) dan Todoeng Harahap gelar Soetan Goenoeng Moelia (gelar
doktor 1933).
Han Tiauw Tjong Sia (1894–1940), was a prominent
colonial Indonesian politician and engineer. He sat in the Volksraad for two
terms (1924–1929, 1938–1939), and was a founding member of the centre-right
political party Chung Hwa Hui. Han also served as a Trustee of the THS te
Bandoeng from 1924 until 1940. Born in Probolinggo on February 1, 1894, Han
came from the Surabaya branch of the Han family of Lasem, one of the oldest
Peranakan dynasties of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry of Java (baba bangsawan) with a
long tradition of public service. Han was the son of Han Biauw Sing, Luitenant
der Chinezen of Kutaraja in Aceh (May 21, 1913, until September 12, 1918), who
was in turn a great-grandson of Han Phik Long Sia (1761–1788), one of the sons
of Han Bwee Kong, Kapitein der Chinezen of Surabaya (1727–1778), an early
comprador and ally of the Dutch East India Company. Han Tiauw Tjong attended
the Europeesche Lagere School (ELS) in Kraksaan, Probolinggo and the Hogere
Burgerschool (HBS) in Semarang before leaving in 1911 for the Netherlands,
where he continued his HBS education and studied at Delft University. He
graduated as an engineer in 1921, and received his doctorate in 1922 after
submitting his dissertation, published in 1922 by Nijhoff as De industrialisatie
van China (the 'industrialisation of China'). While in the Netherlands, Han was
active in Chung Hwa Hui Nederland, a Peranakan student association. He occupied
several board positions in the group between 1916 and 1922, and served as its
president from 1919 until 1920. Klaas Stutje deems Han to be a ‘leading figure’
of the association's ‘China-oriented tendency’, advocating Chinese nationality
for Indies Chinese and criticising the colonial Dutch Nationality Law that
placed ethnic Chinese legally below Europeans in the Indies. (Wikipedia)
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Tjong?
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