Go A Hee, also known as ‘Min opera’ or ‘Hokkien opera’ within Southeast Asia. Long ago, due to their topography proximity to the sea, the distinctive feature of Southern Min people migrating overseas was shaped. Towards the end of the 19th century, the peak season of Southern Min people migrating overseas, large crowds of them migrated to Southeast Asia. Concurrent with the shaping of local...
Kim Yuen Shoemaker
Jalan Sultan is one of the two earliest streets built when Yap Ah Loy pioneered the development of Kuala Lumpur, equally famous as Jalan Petaling. These two streets are the cradle of Chinese predecessors who migrated southwards to Malaya to cultivate wildland, as well as being the initial life blood of Kuala Lumpur’s economy and central business district. Sustaining through centuries, these two streets bear...
The Story of Kampung Baru Sungai Chua
Chinese New Villages (Kampung Baru) are centralized settlements set up by the British colonial government during the 12 years of national emergency. In order to effectively stop peasants from providing food, medicine, and news to the Malayan communists, Brigg’s Plan was carried out in 1950 to forcibly centralize dispersed inhabitants from living in the forest and the borders of tin mines into a settlement under...