Reason My Grandparents Immigrate to Malaysia

Topic The reasons my grandpargonnts immigrated to Malaysia Nowadays, there are millions of Chinese living overseas. For me, I am the third generation of overseas Chinese in Malaysia. My grandparents came from a small village in Chaozhou Prefecture of Guangdong Province, China. They immigrated to Malaysia after instauration War II for several political, economic and societal reasons. In 1930s, China was in a state of disorder due to the incessant fighting betwixt warlords. concourse lived in deep distress. Unfortunately, the war of resistance against lacquer broke out in 1937.The Japanese Imperial Army suddenly occupied a large area of China. My grandparents hometown was not invaded by the Japanese Army since it was further a small village. However, it faced scarcity of food. Many residents died of starvation, including my great-grandmother. My grandparents followed other villagers and fled to Fujian province. After that, they had been on the job(p) in a rich family to earn a li ving for the following 8 years. Finally, in 1945, Japan surrendered. For U. S. A, Britain, Russia and for Japan itself, it symbolized the arrival of peace.Yet, for China, it just marked the resumption of the civil war between Nationalist company and Chinese Communist Party. Both of the two parties wanted to control China. Nobody knew when another war would quit out. The potential war would undoubtedly plunge Chinese people into misery and suffering again. Besides, people only saw a scene of devastation everywhere in China. The economic environs was worse than before. My grandparents put it harder to live in China after the war than before it.Millions of Chinese from Fujian and Guangdong province fled to South-east Asia, the questionable Nanyang, to seek a better life. Many of them chose Malaya (the predecessor of Malaysia) to start their new life. In Malaya, the political environment was much stable then. Before the war, the peninsula was occupied by Britain. The British colonis t spared no effort in maintaining the stability of Malaya as they didnt want any instability to interrupt their plundering of wealth in the colony. My grandparents thought that they could get an easy life in Malaya.They would at least not be gratuitous and homeless there. Since 19th century, thousands of Chinese flowed to Malaya because of the opportunities for employment in the mining, plantations and businesses. The peninsula has an abundance of natural resources. British colonists were rapidly underdeveloped the tin mining industry, rubber, and palm oil farming on the land. There was a high carry of manpower in the peninsula. Consequently, British colonist had been importing a large number of Chinese laborers into Malaya.Apart from that, the mastery stories of Chinese businessmen like Tan Tock Seng, Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian kept inspiring my grandad and other Chinese. Therefore, they didnt mind travelling thousands of miles to Nanyang. They believed that it was a land where they could survive and wrench rich. According to the World Population Years report, there were about 1. 8 million Chinese living in peninsular Malaya in 1947. Overseas Chinese had already formed a big community in Malaya. People who came from same the province and spoke the same dialect lived and worked together.Therefore, it was not a problem for my grandparents to adapt themselves in this new community. All these factors caused my grandparents to make this tough decision. Its really hard for them to leave their homeland and become a citizen of another country. However, they might have been killed in another war if they had stayed in China. The day-to-day fight back of survival overrode all other things such as the unwillingness to leave the place where they had grown up. They were obligate to immigrate. (605 words) Its my essay for English course in University. So embarrassing