Kinship knows no country


One for the album: (From fourth left) Prof Datuk Dr Danny Wong Tze Ken, Prof Datuk Seri Dr Noor Azuan Abu Osman, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) president Prof Li Minghuan and Chan at the conference in Universiti Malaya. — LOW LAY PHON/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Many Malaysian Chinese continue to feel a deep connection to their ancestral roots in China through family ties and shared heritage, and not because of political allegiance, says Prof Dr Tan Chee Beng of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Family ties, he said, were one of the earliest and strongest cultural links maintained by Chinese migrants.

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