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KUCHING 1905/1906 ---- At the time when Wong Shin Chiang arrived from China...
Wong Shin Chiang came to Kuching under an " indent labor" program of Raja Charles Brooke around 1905/1906
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This Steamship - "Rajah of Sarawak" is most probably Shin Chiang too from Singapore to Kuching:
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The building were well completed when my grandfather arrived at KUCHING 1905/1906. He most likely had seen these now historical landmark. These 3 photographs are taken in recent year.
| Wong Shin Chiang should felt being alone in this foreign land for around that that time there were already "....a large number of Chinese traders and pepper planters....". My grandfather was one of the pepper planters. And Kuching was ".....recognized as far away as Washington DC..." |
| "....During the heyday of British rule, from 1905-1957, immigrants and fortune-hunters from within and without the empire converged upon Malaysia, giving the nation its present-day multi-racial and multi-cultural character....." |
| The population of the state, in addition to a small number
of Europeans, government officials and others, a few natives of British
India, and a large number of
Chinese traders and pepper planters,
consists of semi-civilized Malays in the towns and villages of the coast
districts and of a number of wild tribes of Indonesian affinities in the
interior. "SARAWAK." LoveToKnow 1911 Online
Encyclopedia. © 2003, 2004 LoveToKnow. |
| "...Sarawak transformed within a decade from a nonentity to
an independent state recognized as far away as Washington DC. By
1905, Sarawak was
only slightly smaller than Peninsular Malaysia...." http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2001/11/19/features/marker19&sec=features Dr Ooi Keat Gin, a lecturer at USM’s School of Humanities, specializes in the history of Borneo. His books relating to the Brookes of Sarawak include The Brookes and the Economic Development of Sarawak, 1841-1941 (Oxford University Press, 1997) |
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