n the late 1930s, a young Chinese girl, barely in her teens, was placed on a boat to travel to Singapore from a rural village in Shanghai. It was not known how she had acquired the funds to make the journey, or where she was headed to in the opium-riddled budding metropolis that was then known as Singapura. Also uncertain – and perhaps more insidious – were the circumstances in which she ended up
Nessa Anwar
Oct 06, 2023
3 minutes
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