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Four Chinese families in British colonial Malaya : Confucius, Christianity and revolution
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"This narrative, then, is the start of an effort to uncover and represent not just the history of four overseas Chinese families linked by marriage, religion and education, but also to provide a ba...
"This narrative, then, is the start of an effort to uncover and represent not just the history of four overseas Chinese families linked by marriage, religion and education, but also to provide a basis for reflection on the significance of the times through which they lived, and the roles which they, and others like them, played in the evolution of our collective history in China, Singapore and Southeast Asia."--Prologue.
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- Creator
- by Linda Y.C. Lim, PhD
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- Language
- English
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- 4th edition
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : Blurb, [2019]
- ©2019
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- 149 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- on1371069988
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Prologue -- Introduction -- The Lees (father's mother) -- The Lims (father's father) -- The Kungs (mother's mother) -- The Oois (mother's father) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: origins and myths of dialects and names -- Appendix B: tomb mysteries and grave insights -- Appendic C: Saw Kim Lian -- Appendix D: family trees -- Appendix E: sources for further research
Subjects
- Singapore -- Genealogy.
- Chinese -- History.
- Chinese -- Singapore -- History.
- Confucianism.
- Christians.
- Confucianism.
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