# Chan Tseng-hsi > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chan_Tseng-hsi > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chan_Tseng-hsi.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Tseng-hsi > Source revision: 1357117033 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Chinese businessman In this [Chinese name](/source/Chinese_name), the [family name](/source/Chinese_surname) is *Chan*. Chan Tseng-hsi T.H. Chan 陳曾熙 Born Chan Tseng-hsi 1923 Guangdong, China Died 8 March 1986(1986-03-08) (aged 62–63) Occupation Property developer Known for Co-founder of the Hang Lung Group Children Ronnie Chan Gerald Chan **Chan Tseng-hsi**[1] ([Chinese](/source/Traditional_Chinese_characters): 陳曾熙; [pinyin](/source/Pinyin): *Chén Zēngxī*; abbreviated as **T.H. Chan**; 1923 – 8 March 1986) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur who founded the Hong Kong–based real estate company [Hang Lung Group](/source/Hang_Lung_Group).[2] Born and raised in the province of [Guangdong](/source/Guangdong), China, Chan moved to [British Hong Kong](/source/British_Hong_Kong) in the 1940s because of the [Chinese Civil War](/source/Chinese_Civil_War). He took an entry-level job in a bank[*[which?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words)*] and eventually built a successful real estate business. According to his son [Gerald](/source/Gerald_Chan), he used to loan money to his friends to pay for their children's school fees. His wife, Tan Chingfen, was a nurse who, in the 1950s, gave cholera vaccinations to the neighbourhood children in the family kitchen.[3] After Gerald got a fellowship for his doctoral studies at Harvard, Chan was proud of his son, but disturbed that Gerald was taking the place of someone who could not pay. He told a friend, "We have the means to pay tuition. Why is Gerald taking the scholarship away from someone else?"[3] In 2014, his sons [Ronnie](/source/Ronnie_Chan) and Gerald donated $350 million to [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), which named the [Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health](/source/Harvard_T.H._Chan_School_of_Public_Health) after him.[3][4] Harvard officials said the money would be used in four areas: pandemics, including obesity, cancer, and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa; harmful environments, including pollution and violence; poverty and humanitarian crises; and failing health systems.[4] Also in 2014, [Ronnie Chan](/source/Ronnie_Chan) and his wife Barbara donated $20 million to the [University of Southern California](/source/University_of_Southern_California) in honor of T.H. Chan's widow to name and endow the USC Mrs. T.H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. In 2021, the Chan family made an unrestricted gift of $175 million to the UMass Medical School, which changed its name to the [UMass Chan Medical School](/source/University_of_Massachusetts_Chan_Medical_School) in recognition of this donation.[5] In March 2022, the [Morningside Academy for Design](/source/MIT_School_of_Architecture_and_Planning#Morningside_Academy_for_Design) was founded with a $100 million gift from the Morningside Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the T.H. Chan family.[6] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["About Us | Hang Lung"](https://www.hanglung.com/en-us/about-us/hang-lung-stories/chan-tseng-hsi). *www.hanglung.com*. Retrieved 18 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [https://connections.hanglung.com/en/node/3709](https://connections.hanglung.com/en/node/3709) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180716053952/https://connections.hanglung.com/en/node/3709) 16 July 2018 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)[*[non-primary source needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources)*] 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-HSPH_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-HSPH_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-HSPH_3-2) Madeleine Drexler (19 July 2016). ["The story of T.H. Chan"](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/the-story-of-t-h-chan/). *Harvard Public Health Magazine*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190323175508/https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/the-story-of-t-h-chan/) from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2018. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NYT_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NYT_4-1) Richard Pérez-Peña (8 September 2014). ["Hong Kong Group to Give Harvard's School of Public Health $350 Million"](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/education/harvards-school-of-public-health-gets-350-million-from-the-morningside-foundation.html). *New York Times*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180716053850/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/education/harvards-school-of-public-health-gets-350-million-from-the-morningside-foundation.html) from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** UMass Chan Medical School Communications (17 September 2021). ["University of Massachusetts announces $175 million transformational gift to its Medical School"](https://www.massachusetts.edu/news/university-massachusetts-announces-175-million-transformational-gift-its-medical-school). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220711193342/https://www.massachusetts.edu/news/university-massachusetts-announces-175-million-transformational-gift-its-medical-school) from the original on 11 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["MIT MAD | Morningside Academy for Design"](https://design.mit.edu/about). *design.mit.edu*. Retrieved 30 January 2024. This biographical article related to medicine in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:US-med-bio-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AUS-med-bio-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:US-med-bio-stub) This business-related Hong Kong biographical article is a stub. 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