The first wave of Chinese settlers came during the Malacca Empire in the early 15th century.
Here is a good summary of a famous person from China to reach Malacca.
The bulk of the Hokkien settled primary in Malacca or Penang and they came from Fujian. The Foochow landed in Sarawak, Perak and Johor. The Hainanese reached places like Trengganu and Selangor.
"Twenty years in a day" is a favorite slogan of the Communist Government, decades ago. Within a generation, it is determined to transform China into an industrial giant rivaling the Soviet Union and the United States. Western experts are inclined to believe, even allowing for communist exaggeration, that China's yearly rate of economic growth reached 8 or 9 percent during the 1952 to 1957.Should this tremendous expansion continue, the Chinese Communists may begin to threaten American and Russion industrial supremacy by 1970 or 1980.
The second wave of Chinese immigrants came to Malaya during the 19th century or early 20th century. The largest group came from Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan province.
The Communist Government is determined to wiped out illiteracy and to that end, the characters of Chinese writing have been simplified and a system based on the Western alphabet is being introduced. Schools of many types have sprung up everywhere, and it is claimed that they have 100,000,000 students 5 decades ago. Up to 1960, above 10,000 students were sent to the Soviet Union for advanced training. Living standards have been raised somewhat. More attention is being paid to sanitation and health. Some of the worst diseases like cholera, smallpox, ... had almost vanished.
Early Chinese history, like that of other ancient nations, has a long period spanning over a thousand years, where tradition and fact cannot be disentangled. After this came nearly a thousands years more when development went on in a number of seperate feudal states more or less under an emperor. Finally a strong ruler of the third century B.C. drew these states together under his firm hand. Soon, Shi Huang Ti, the first universal emperor, brought and end to feudal conditions, made canals and roads and about 220 B.C. started the building of the Great Wall. During the feudal period, some of the finnest bronze had been made, silk had become an important product, Confucius and other teachers had lived, and masterpieces of literature had been written.
We also studied about Jenghiz Khan and Kublai Khan in school beside the history of Shi Huang Ti. In 1911, the Manchu dynasty fell, and in the following year a republic was set up. The real birthdays of Chinese children are never celebrated and a baby is counted as one year old at birth.
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