Preface
Introduction
1. Reasons to Emigrate
2. Chan Clan Members Who Emigrated
3. In Search of a New Life
4. First Time in Taiping
5. Initial Success in Taiping
6. Searching for Tin in Chemor
7. Return to China
8. Ancestral Home in China
9. Return to Malaya
10. Settling Down in Taiping
11. Life as a Taoist Priest
12. Father Chung Chow's Siblings
13. Father a Self-Educated Man
14. Japanese Occupation
15. Screening and Interrogation
16. Age and Name Change
17. Terror Under the Japanese Soldiers
18. Work to Survive
19. Food Shortages
20. Demise of Chan Keng San
21. Japanese Invasion Money
22. Happy Events During the Hardships of War
23. Happy Union
24. Beginning of the Second Generation
25. Demise of Grandfather Chan Ah Kee
26. Sole Breadwinner
27. Malayan Communist Party (MCP)
28. The Emergency
29. New Additions During the Emergency
30. Demise of Grandmother Wong Sui Cheng
31. End of Our Primogenitors in Malaya
32. The Second Generation is Now Complete
33. Home Sweet Home at 15 Tupai Road
34. Growing Up and Responsibilities
35. Tightening Our Belts
36. Growing Up and Having Fun
37. Leaving the Nest
38. Visit to Homeland
39. Brush With Death
40. "Old Men Ailment"
41. House Taken Away
42. Demise of a Beloved Mother
43. After Mother's Death
44. MI Home
45. Happy Reunion
46. The Final Legacy
Appendices
Major Chronological Periods in China and British Malaya
The Chan/Chung Chronology
Origin of the Zeng Clan
Spellings of Surnames
Generation Names
China During the Mid 19th and Early 20th Centuries
British Intervention in the Malay States
The Japanese Occupation
Ah... those were the days
References
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