Tse Tsan-tai

Tse Tsan-tai (Chinese: 謝纘泰 or 謝贊泰; pinyin: Xiè Zàntài; Sidney Lau: Je⁶ Juen² Taai³; 16 May 1872 – 4 April 1938), courtesy name Sing-on (聖安), art-named Hong-yu (康如), was one of the earliest Chinese revolutionaries of the late Qing Dynasty. Tse was the first Chinese to fly an airship, China in 1899. His book The Chinese Republic: Secret History of the Revolution (中華民國革命秘史), published in 1924 by the South China Morning Post, of which he was co-founder, is an important source of studies on the anti-Qing revolution.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, to a patriotic Chinese, Tse Yat-cheong (謝日昌), Tse Tsan-tai was baptised James See on 1 November, 1879. In 1887, Tse moved to Hong Kong with his family and was educated at the Government Central School (now the Queen's College). Later, Tse worked as a secretary in the Public Works Department of the Government of Hong Kong for nearly 10 years.

On March 13, 1892, Tse, together with Yeung Ku-wan and others, started the Furen Literary Society in Pak Tse Lane, Sheung Wan, with the guiding principle of "Ducit Amor Patriae" (盡心愛國 in Chinese, literally "Love your country with all your heart"). The society released books and papers discussing the future of China and advocating the overthrow of the Qing government and the establishment of a republic in China. The Furen Literary Society was merged into the Hong Kong Chapter of the Revive China Society in 1895, with Yeung and Sun Yat-sen as the president and secretary of the society respectively. When Yeung and Sun fled overseas after the unsuccessful First Guangzhou Uprising, Tse remained in Hong Kong.

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