印童 (Indian Boy)

The subject confronts the viewer directly. The boy is likely a South Indian Hindu as he wears in the centre of his forehead the red mark kumkum and a lungi (a sarong wrap). Tchang was an intellectual, a critic and editor, an educator as well as a social “leader” and pivotal member of key art agencies and communities such as Society of Chinese Artists. A critic and activist against the Japanese Occupation of China and subsequently Singapore, Tchang was killed in 1942 during the Sook Ching Operation.

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