Rooted in the resilience of diaspora
Migration as a means to survive
Similar to many Chinese diaspora in the early 1900s, my great-grandparents migrated out of Southern China out of necessity - packing up a cloth bag full of dreams and hopes for a better future to 南洋 (South East Asia).
My great-grandfather’s boat docked on the shores of Northern Malaysia (then Malaya), where my grandfather and his 9 other siblings would be born. This was Ayer Tawar, Perak.
Pictured: my grandmother (left), my grand aunt (centre), and my great-grandmother (right), seated on a bench crafted by my grandfather, in front of the house where they raised their nine children. Ayer Tawar, 1960s.
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