Nio Joe Lan [SEP] date of death
Nio Joe Lan
Nio Joe Lan (; Perfected Spelling: Nio Yu Lan; also known by the Indonesianised name Junus Nur Arif; 29 December 1904 – 13 February 1973) was a Chinese-Indonesian writer, journalist, and history teacher.
Biography.
Nio was born on 29 December 1904 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), the son of a rich batik merchant and his wife. After elementary school and home-schooling in the Chinese language, as a teenager Nio began studying
"). He returned to Batavia in 1925, and by 1928 he was a regular contributor to "Keng Po" (run by Hauw Tek Kong). While working with "Keng Po", Lauw helped Nio Joe Lan find work at the newspaper; Nio would go on to become an editor of "Sin Po".
Aside from journalism, Lauw was involved in the emerging literature of the East Indies. After Lie Kim Hok's death in 1912, Lauw completed the writer's ongoing translation of Hugo Hartmann