Cheong Fatt Tze
Qing Dynasty politician · Malaysia · On the map · Founders · Lived 1840 to 1916 · aged 76
Cheong Fatt Tze, also known as Tjong Tjen Hsoen, Thio Tiauw Siat or Zhang Bishi was a Chinese industrialist, politician and philanthropist.
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Spending the majority of his life residing in Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, he was a powerful Nanyang business magnate and a first-class Mandarin of China; he was made Consul-General in Singapore and economic advisor. He was once regarded as the richest man in Malaya, with a reputed net worth of 80 million taels worth of silver, which brought him the moniker "the Rockefeller of China". He died in Batavia from pneumonia.
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