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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9789814408615
- Categories Asian Literature, BX, BXOS, extraordinary, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Author(s) Chan Ling Yap
- Publisher Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
- Pages 232
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13.1cm x 3.0cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.395 kg
product description
A descendent of the famous Kapitan Cina, Yap Kwan Seng, Chan Ling Yap will take you back to China in the 1800s, where we follow one man's journey to a new promised land Malaya. A descendant of the famous Kapitan Cina, Yap Kwan Seng, Chan Ling Yap will take you back to China in the 1800s, where we follow one man's journey to a new promised land Malaya. In the southern Province of Guangxi amidst the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium War, a woman is kidnapped and her husband shipped out as a coolie to Singapore. Yet from despair came good fortune. Seen through the eyes of one family, this is a moving story of the scourge of opium and one man's plight and rise in fortune in British Malaya.
