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Article: Wong Ah Fook: Immigrant, builder and entrepreneur.(Book Review)

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Wong Ah Fook: Immigrant, builder and entrepreneur By P. LIM PUI HUEN Singapore: Times Editions, 2002. Pp. 185. Illustrations DOI: 10.1017/S0022463404320187

Here is a book that you will enjoy reading, and it is also a fine, scholarly study that has a broad significance. With professional diligence, including the best type of historical imagination, Wong Ah Fook: Immigrant, builder and entrepreneur is a biography that (as the author, Pat Lira, promises) offers a 'narrative of the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore'.

Wong Ah Fook came to Singapore in 1854, established himself in building construction and then branched off into agriculture, revenue farming, ...

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