Tan Teck Soon

Tan Teck Soon ( simplified Chinese         ; 1859 25 ga Nuwamba 1922) ɗan ƙasar Sin ne mai ilimi kuma marubuci wanda ke aiki a Singapore. Shi ɗan mishan ne Tan See Boo.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Tan a shekara ta 1859 a Singapore . Mahaifinsa shi ne mishan na kasar Sin Tan See Boo . Mahaifiyarsa, Yeo Geok Neo, tsohuwar makarantar 'yan mata ce ta kasar Sin .  Tan ya halarci Cibiyar Raffles kuma ya kasance mai ƙwarewa sosai a cikin karatun Sinanci. Yayinda yake matashi, Tan sau da yawa yana taimaka wa mahaifinsa ya fassara wasiƙunsa ga masu wa'azi a ƙasashen waje daga Sinanci zuwa Turanci. A shekara ta 1873, ya zama na farko da ya karbi kyautar Guthrie Scholarship ga yara maza na kasar Sin, wanda ya ba shi damar ci gaba da karatunsa a Kwalejin Anglo-Chinese a Xiamen, kasar Sin.

 Ayyuka 
Bayan kammala karatunsa, Tan ya koma Singapore don aiki a matsayin ma'aikacin gwamnati. Daga baya ya shiga kamfanoni masu zaman kansu, yana aiki a matsayin wani ɓangare na ofishin jakadancin Kim Ching & Co a Thailand. Tan ya kuma kasance memba mai aiki na Cibiyar Ilimi ta kasar Sin ta Singapore, Ƙungiyar Kirista ta Straits ta kasar Sin, Ƙungiyar Anti-Opium, da Ƙungiyar Philomathic ta kasar Sin.

A shekara ta 1893, Tan ya kafa kungiyar Straits Philosophical Society, wanda membobinta sun iyakance zuwa 15 kuma suna buƙatar ɗaya ya kasance mai "mafi kyawun cancanta", mai digiri na jami'a, ko memba na ƙungiyar ilimi ta Turai; tare da Lim Boon Keng, wanda aka shigar da shi cikin al'umma a shekara ta 1895, Tan yana ɗaya daga cikin membobinta biyu na kasar Sin. A shekara ta 1894, Tan da ministan Presbyterian Archibald Lamont sun sayi Daily Advertiser, wanda Tan ya kasance editan tun 1890. Tan kuma ya rubuta wani littafi game da 'yan kasar Sin da ke kasashen waje a Singapore, mai taken Bright Celestials: The Chinaman at Home and Abroad (1894), tare da Lamont

Tan akai-akai ya rubuta wa mujallar Straits Chinese Magazine, mujallar kwata-kwata da ta gudana daga 1897 zuwa 1907. A shekara ta 1898, tare da Lim Boon Keng da masanin kasar Sin Khoo Seok Wan, Tan ya kafa jaridar harshen Sinanci Thien Nan Shin Pao; ya yi aiki a matsayin babban manajanta daga 1898 zuwa 1905.

 Shekaru na baya 
Tan ya janye daga rayuwar jama'a a shekarunsa na baya. Ya kara sha'awar addinin Buddha kuma ya kasance mai goyon bayan Maha Bodhi Society wanda Sri Lankan revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala ya kafa. Tan ya mutu a ranar 25 ga Nuwamba 1922 yana da shekaru 63.

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