If your forefathers migrated to SG when it was a colony...

[Jah_rastafar_I]

That one U go take it out with the history books. Qing Dynasty official end is 1911(or 1912 depending on how U look at it)

SG Chinese population during that time only 216K
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/singapore/sg_appen.html#table2

Chances are the majority of our forefathers came after that. More likely just before Independence and after the World War. My family got here just before the World War.

i think some of us might have ancestors living in malaysia, malacca. Many chinese also came over from malaysia. They most likely would be baba.

 

[Sideswipe]

from my memories of historybooks

most of our forefathers came to Nanyang to work from 1850 to 1930s.
Migration of Chinese to Nanyang stop when full scale war started between China and Japan in 1937.
The last flow of Chinese migration to Singapore before indepenance ended in 1937.

After 1945, the Chinese nationalist govt made a public plea for all overseas chinese in Nanyang to return home and rebuild the country. Some Chinese in Malaya and Singapore did return to China from 1945-47. In 1947, the Chinese civil war erupted throughout the mainland. Nanyang Chinese faced an anxious wait to see when the war end and they can return home.

After 1949, PRC closed door policy meant that overseas chinese were "stranded" in foreign countries, as years went by, took on citizenship of their adopted countries. Chinese who managed to leave China after 1949 to the late 80s went to Hongkong and from HK to England / United States.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

from my memories of historybooks

most of our forefathers came to Nanyang to work from 1850 to 1930s.
Migration of Chinese to Nanyang stop when full scale war started between China and Japan in 1937.
The last flow of Chinese migration to Singapore before indepenance ended in 1937.

After 1945, the Chinese nationalist govt made a public plea for all overseas chinese in Nanyang to return home and rebuild the country. Some Chinese in Malaya and Singapore did return to China from 1945-47. In 1947, the Chinese civil war erupted throughout the mainland. Nanyang Chinese faced an anxious wait to see when the war end and they can return home.

After 1949, PRC closed door policy meant that overseas chinese were "stranded" in foreign countries, as years went by, took on citizenship of their adopted countries. Chinese who managed to leave China after 1949 to the late 80s went to Hongkong and from HK to England / United States.

yet many of them want to come here and go overseas nowadays

 

[VIBGYOR]

yet many of them want to come here and go overseas nowadays

never been to China?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

never been to China?

Only once illegally during a visit to HK which was not under china at that time.