Remembering Tan Kim Hong: Pre-eminent historian of the Chinese community in Penang

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Tan Kim HongTan Kim Hong, a pre-eminent historian of the Chinese community in Penang, died on 25 January. Kim Hong joined Aliran on 12 September 2004 after his retirement from the government education service. Historian of Penang’s Chinese communityThese contributions aside, Tan Kim Hong was surely the pre-eminent historian of the Chinese community in Penang. He compiled and edited the important volume Commemorative Publication of Centenary Celebrations and Inauguration of New Building Penang Chinese Town Hall, 1983, which included a history of the Penang Chinese Town Hall that Kim Hong wrote. Kim Hong leaves behind his wife Beh Ah Gek (馬雅玉), a son and a daughter, and two grandchildren.