ASIA!

Perhaps one of the most bizarre examples of how confused “loyalty” is for the Chinese diaspora can be demonstrated by the work of a Chinese Canadian businessman, Michael Lo. A Hong Kong immigrant, Lo invested heavily in his private education empire in Vancouver, where he used to have a college and a university.

He befriended politicians. He was able to get a Chinese Canadian member of parliament to connect him to the right people at renowned education institutes and government units in China.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, a US-based think tank on international movement of people, there were an estimated 33 million ethnic Chinese living outside China, Taiwan and Hong Kong by early 2000. This number had jumped from 22 million in 1985 and from 12.7 million in the 1960s. As overseas Chinese tend to have low birth rates, the Institute says, it suggests the majority of this migration is believed to have come from the Greater China area.

To this day, few believe the official cause of death: cerebral edema caused by an allergic reaction to Equagesic, an anti-anxiety agent. To be precise, Lee died of a cerebral edema—that’s unequivocal. The controversy is in the cause of that edema. Dr Donald Langford, a Baptist missionary and Lee’s doctor in Hong Kong said, “Nobody dies from one tablet of Equagesic. No analgesic killed Bruce.” Around the time of his death, numerous wild, unfounded and scandalous reports were appearing in the media.

1955 – On her birthday, 18-year old Nina Kung Yu-Sum marries Teddy Wang Teh Huei, 21, whom she started dating at age 11. Teddy’s mother is not happy with the match.

1960 – A sickly Teddy makes a will bequeathing equal shares of his property firm, Chinachem to Nina and his dad, Din-shin.