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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Hard Workers. Britain's entry into the Orient brought new swarms of Chinese to Nanyang as indentured coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...past few months, backed by a number of Communist-backed newspapers called the "mosquito" press, the Reds have laid their fire on higher ground: the new Nanyang University that its chancellor, Author Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), had dreamed of building into the intellectual mecca of the millions of free Chinese in Southeast Asia (TIME, Aug. 16). Day after day, Lin was singled out for special attack in the press; he received an anonymous threat to his life, was forced to go about the city with a police bodyguard. This month, when Lin finally resigned, ostensibly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Murder in Singapore | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Singapore, famed Author-Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) Yutang resigned his post as chancellor of newborn Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16). Ostensibly, the row was over the school's first budget and operating policies. But behind the scenes, Nanyang, set up primarily to win Oriental minds for the West, was an ideological morass, a battleground where the Communists had already opened a rabbit-punch struggle to capture minds for their own cause. In despair and frustration. Dr. Lin, more a scholar than a dynamic educator, capitulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...Singapore, Author-Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) Yutang, first chancellor of the city's abuilding $7,000,000 Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16), rose before some 300 women to make a speech titled "Dress Is Civilization." Cried Dr. Lin, who thinks like a Confucius but dresses like a Coolidge: "Men should dress neatly, sensibly and efficiently, but let us do away with this age-old Nordic fashion-the tie. Give us a few inches around our necks. You ladies can take off your jackets when it is too hot, and appear in your blouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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