Tan Chong Kee

Dr Tan Chong Kee (born in 1963) was one of Singapore's best known figures in civil society activism. Eminently bilingual in English and Chinese, Tan is remembered most for being the founder of the now-defunct Singapore Internet Community (SinterCom), a website which aimed to provide a platform for discussions of issues to take place openly.

Set up in 1994 while he was studying Chinese Literature in Taipei after obtaining two degrees from Cambridge University in computer science, Sintercom was eventually closed in 2001 after the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) asked it to register itself as a political website despite earlier assurances that it did not have to.

Tan also served as the Chairman of non-profit theatre company, The Necessary Stage and holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford University in the United States.

Tan was a guest on several television panel discussions and documentaries, and the subject of newspaper articles on socio-political activists. He delivered the first lecture of IndigNation entitled "Same Sex Love in Classical Chinese Literature", in Mandarin. Tan left Singapore in 2007 and currently resides in San Francisco with his Caucasian American husband whom he married in 2013. He was interviewed by The Independent in January 2014.



=See also=

=References=
 * Sylvia Tan, "Tan Chong Kee", Fridae, 1 August 2005
 * website

=Acknowledgements=

This article was written by Roy Tan.