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New Beginnings
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New Beginnings

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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Country
Singapore
Date
22 October 2013
Pages
232
ISBN
9789814408615

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Country
Singapore
Date
22 October 2013
Pages
232
ISBN
9789814408615