Tan Kun-giok (Chinese: 陳君玉; 1905 – 4 March 1963), also known as Chen Chun-yu in Mandarin, was a Taiwanese songwriter and author[1] born in Dadaocheng. He wrote many Hokkien songs such as Thiau Bu Si Tai (跳舞時代)[2][3] and Siu Be Toa Kang Tiau (想要彈像調), and had served as an officer of the Columbia Record, a Japanese-owned disc company. Tan could speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, he was an introducer of Mandarin to postwar Taiwan.[1] Chen died from hepatic cancer in 1963.[4]
References
^ ab"台語歌樂的諍友陳君玉逝". Radio Taiwan International. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2008.
