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New Beginnings
Chan Ling Yap
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Description for New Beginnings
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 396.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Singapore
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
396g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789814408615
SKU
V9789814408615
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-24
About Chan Ling Yap
Chan Ling Yap (or Yap Chan Ling when in Asia) was born in Kuala Lumpur. She was educated in Malaysia and subsequently in England where she obtained a PhD in Economics. She lectured at the University of Malaya before joining the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome where she worked for nearly two decades. She now lives in ... Read more
Reviews for New Beginnings
Chan Ling Yap's third novel has all the assurance of her first two successes - and more. A strong story line, deftly rendered in brief and readable instalments, takes us from the turbulence of a China unmercifully exploited with opium by the western powers in Victorian times, to the race and clan rivalries of an emerging Singapore ... Read more