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Post by Henry on Jan 27, 2015 9:04:40 GMT -5
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Post by FayChee on Jan 27, 2015 19:23:35 GMT -5
I really enjoyed reading those stories Henry, but I wished they were longer, I wanted to read more. It's interesting about the business that was made to help overseas Chinese find their Ancestral Villages and homes.
That last story made me laugh when she told the writer "One villager asked me secretly, 'Are all foreign people black?'"
We are generation "The Returners"..... it seems everyone my age develops a longing to find their roots..........I guess we want to know who will be greeting us on the 'other side' of eternity.
Fay Chee
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Post by FayChee on Jan 29, 2015 10:31:52 GMT -5
Did anyone notice this article or is this old news for you?: Culture> Heritage "First national museum telling history of overseas Chinese" ..........."The initiative of establishing an overseas Chinese history museum was finally realized fifty years after Tan Kah Kee, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader, first put forward the proposal in 1960. It was a gray modern building enclosed with traditional Chinese corridors, and that's how the first national museum of its kind looks like. Located in Chaoyang district of downtown Beijing, the museum covers an area of 12,765 square meters, housing around 10,000 pieces of antique objects. Most of its collections are photos, documents and articles of daily use at different times.................." www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2014-12/11/content_19065897.htm
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Post by helen on Jan 29, 2015 23:41:07 GMT -5
Thanks Henry - interesting article. Shows that others are helping in the cause. It seems that we need to act fast, as people from the 30s are getting less and less - and the memories from before the Japanese war will be gone
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