A Chinese immigrant tale
By Alfred Romann January 19th, 2007More than a century ago, an illiterate teenager left his home in Guangzhou and went to Zimbabwe (it was called Rhodesia then) to make a living. His illiterate wife joined him 18 years later.
The family stayed in the African country and their granddaughter, Fay King Chung, is a Zimbabwe minister and the first director of the UNESCO Institute for Capacity Building.
The story appeared in Beijing Review a couple of weeks ago and has made its way through a number of blogs.
It is a good example of the growing links between countries, the fading influence of national borders and the growing emergence of a global culture that goes beyond Disney, McDonald’s and Hollywood movies.
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January 24th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I’ve also been thinking, though not quite rationally, that China would possibly colonize some other less-developed areas in this world, with
its advantage in population or by its instinct in expansion.
Say, Singapore is quite a good example. However, like many other
colonies, the lives usually become better there and the immigration does
not necessarily mean the infection of ideology and corruption.