Tan Ah Choon: The Singapore ‘King of Spirit Mediums’ (1928-2010)
On 27 January 2010 Tan Ah CHOON died at the age of 82. Born in the year of the dragon (1928), Tan was the most respected spirit-medium among his peers. He became a tangki (童乩 tongji ‘child diviner’ or Chinese spirit-medium) just before the 1950s, and by the 1960s was regarded as the wisest, most pow...
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Main Authors: | CHAN, Margaret, YUE, Victor |
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2010
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