Johor Bahru Chinese Heritage Museum
Four-storey shophouse museum tracing Chinese pioneers, pepper-and-gambier planters and clan life.
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This guide to the Johor Bahru Chinese Heritage Museum starts with a census from the eighteen nineties that hardly sounds like a Malay kingdom, and follows a Teochew cloth peddler who crossed from Singapore in the eighteen fifties with a royal permit in hand. You'll hear about the kangchu, the masters of the riverbank, the pepper and gambier they planted, and the sultan who raised one of them to high office. Listen inside the four-storey shophouse, close to the back entrance on Jalan Tan Hiok Nee.
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