Reliving the lives and times of Chinese immigrants
By Zhao Xu | China Daily | Updated: 2016-09-10 07:17
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The Chinese Heritage Center at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University offers a glimpse into the everyday struggles of migrants from the mainland
For Sophia Soon, a Singapore-born museum guide, a black-and-white picture taken of a Chinese man - probably a first-generation immigrant - and now hanging on the wall of the Chinese Heritage Center at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, speaks volumes. "Look at his shoes - so small that he could barely squeeze his feet in," she says.
"They were actually props borrowed from a photo studio - just like the cheongsam and the hat."
According to Soon, despite looking urbane, even scholarly, the man in question is most likely to have been a coolie, someone doing hard manual labor, presumably along the banks of the Singapore River.
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