Author: Meng Sing Lim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992303594
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Lim Meng Sing is a self-taught composer and violinist who lives in Australia. He grew up in Malaya during its period as a British crown colony. This memoir covers the most formative stage of the author's life up to 1957 when he was seventeen. It gives a rare insight into the period of British colonial rule, his parents and their profound influences on him growing up in a strict traditional family steeped in Confucian values, their struggle with poverty, his quest for meaning as an adolescent, the sociology of Klang, his birthplace, his school-days and his teachers, his musical awakening and his humanism.