Chinese-Malaysians embrace their cultural roots

For Jasond Tseng Chow Chih, heritage advocate and calligrapher, Malacca is home to one of the strongest Chinese cultural heritage roots outside China. The Chinese-Malaysian, a director of the Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies in Kuala Lumpur, said that like most ethnic Chinese families in Malacca, his family has a genealogy book that descendants can use to trace who their first Chinese ancestors to set foot in Malaysia were and when they did so.

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