The letter in English: Ipoh’s place on the Sun Yat-Sen trail
By Carolyn Hong
March 2015 FOOTPRINTS
In the turmoil at the beginning of the 20th century, secret letters were commonplace. And it was with a letter from Dr Sun Yat-Sen, mysteriously written in English, addressed to her great-great grandfather, that Chan Sue Meng began the painstaking work of piecing her family history together.It all began with a letter written in English. The unusual choice of language intrigued Chan Sue Meng when she came across it among the musty papers kept by her grandmother. The rest of...
Carolyn Hong
lives in Ba Kelalan sometimes, in KL sometimes. A former journalist who once chased the big stories for a regional newspaper, she now hunts for the small stories in Malaysia’s smallest places.
