If we had to pick a year to indicate the start of Chinese mass migration to Malaya, when would it be?
The question piqued me after reading the tweet below a few days ago by Derek Tonkin who stated “1872 was at the start of the serious Chittagonian migration into Arakan”.
i.e. start of the serious migration of Bengali workers from Chittagong (Bangladesh) into Rakhine, Myanmar. Continue reading “How many years does it take Chinese to learn BM?”
Helen Ang 