KOTA KINABALU: A chest brought back to Sandakan from China in 1931 by the grandmother of Sabah’s prominent naturalist Datuk Chan Chew Lun was left unopened for 90 years.
When it was finally opened, her family found two well-wrapped pieces of Chinese attire still in pristine condition that were placed with pepper seeds to keep them dry and a packet of firecrackers to keep insects away.For some unknown reason, she never opened it and it became a family heirloom till her grandchildren decided to open it a few years ago after she had passed.
The Borneo Times English newspaper, which was owned by a member of the family, was also forced to close, during the formation of Malaysia in 1963. “It took me 13 years to put the story together. I visited cemeteries, the Sabah archives and my ancestral village in JiuJiung in southern China four times over the years.
The Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 and 2021 was a blessing in disguise for Chan who managed to get his pet book project back on track, completing it earlier this year.
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