Chinese in the Southern Ocean

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

For more than a millennia, millions of Chinese have come to the region they called the Southern Ocean – modern Southeast Asia. They came to find refuge, to escape poverty, persecution and starvation. They came too as explorers and diplomats. Many were drawn to a little red dot close to the equator – the island of Singapore. Here in just two centuries they forged a new identity and helped build a new nation.

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