The Chinese in Southeast Asia Second Edition

The Chinese have been entering Southeast Asia since the early years of the fifteenth century. By 1941, in Malay alone, there were about 2,580,000 Chinese, outnumbering the natives. The detailed history of this movement into Malaya has been written by Victor Purcell, who delineates the story of the beginnings of contacts and carries it through to July 1947 . Mr Purcell is highly qualified to eng…