Kiong Kong Tuan
龔光傳

Born| 1790

Penang

Died| January 16, 1854(1854-01-16) (aged 63–64)
Nationality| Chinese
Occupation(s)| Merchant; revenue farmer
Known for| Holder of opium and spirit farms in Singapore in 19th century

Kiong Kong Tuan (Chinese: 龔光傳; pinyin: Gōng Guāngchuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kíng Kong-thuân; 1790–1854) was a Chinese merchant from Penang. He was a merchant in Penang before establishing himself in Singapore. Kiong Kong Tuan held the revenue farms for opium in the 1830s, and also for spirits. He had a spirit factory at Pearl's Hill, and the site was known among the Chinese as Chiu-long-san ("Spirit Factory Hill").[1][2] He was known to have held the opium and spirit farms in 1848,[3] and was the last opium farmer in Singapore.[4] He was also involved in coffee and real estate.[5] In the 1840s he had 50 acres (200,000 m2) of coffee planted near Jurong.[1] Kiong was the grantee of a large, 20 acres (81,000 m2) tract of land, with Chin Swee Road as the main artery and Cornwall Street and Seok Wee Road as side streets, which was a densely populated Straits Chinese residential quarter.[6][7]

Kiong married a daughter of Choa Chong Long, by whom he had an only son, Kiong Seok Wee, and several daughters, one of whom became the wife of Wee Bin of the steamship firm Wee Bin & Co. He died at the age of 64 on 16 January 1854.[1] Kiong was of Hokkien ethnicity from southern Fujian region.[8]

## See also

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* The Singapore Encyclopedia[better source needed]
* A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya, 1800–1911, by Ch'ing-huang Yen ISBN 0-19-582666-3, ISBN 978-0-19-582666-1
* Guardian of the South Seas: Thian Hock Keng and Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, published by Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, 2006. ISBN 9789810559243

## References

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1. ^ a b c Song, Ong Siang (1923). One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore. John Murray. p. 39.
2. ^ Trocki, Carl A. (1990). Opium and empire: Chinese society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910. Cornell University Press. p. 98\. ISBN 9780801423901.
3. ^ Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian studies, Volumes 1-2 Published by Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1983
4. ^ Jürgen., Rudolph (1998). Reconstructing identities : a social history of the Babas in Singapore. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1840143576. OCLC 40333128.
5. ^ Asian culture, Issue 28 by the Singapore Society of Asian Studies, Published by Xinjiapo Yazhou yan jiu xue hui, 2004
6. ^ Song, Ong Siang (1923). One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore. John Murray. pp. xv, 25, 26.
7. ^ A., Trocki, Carl (2006). Singapore : wealth, power and the culture of control. London: Routledge. pp. 17, 87, 190, 205. ISBN 0415263859. OCLC 65523343.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. ^ "重走海丝第3站新加坡 狮城最大中式庙宇供奉开漳圣王_食用苍蝇". Archived from the original on 2018-08-17. Retrieved 2018-08-17.