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New Beginnings

by Chan Ling Yap
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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. A descendent of the famous Kapitan Cina, Yap Kwan Seng, Chan Ling Yap will take you back to China in the 1900s, where we follow one man's journey to a new promised land Malaya.

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Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International

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  • ISBN: 9789814484886
  • Release date: October 28, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9789814484886
  • File size: 2216 KB
  • Release date: October 28, 2013

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Fiction Historical Fiction

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English

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. A descendent of the famous Kapitan Cina, Yap Kwan Seng, Chan Ling Yap will take you back to China in the 1900s, where we follow one man's journey to a new promised land Malaya.

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Fiction Historical Fiction