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.
- ISBN10 9814408611
- ISBN13 9789814408615
- Publish Date 22 October 2013
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country SG
- Imprint Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 232
- Language English