Next time you pass by Ann Siang Hill, look out for an out-of-place shophouse building that seems to have “been able to keep it at its time“.
What building is it?
this building houses a 133 year old Association of the Chinese who came from the three areas in GuangDong, Li Shu Shi Shi 李氏書室. Better known as an association for the people from these three areas, hence, Kwong Wai Siew, this is another association apart from its better known associate organisation in Peck Shan Teng.
When look at from its origins, clan associations seem so very out of place in 21st-century Singapore. But clan associations like these are now even more so a connection with the past: a reminder of the many immigrant communities (not just Chinese, but from India and many other neighbouring Malay-speaking areas) that laid their stake in Singapore and built the modern nation we live in today.
Read more about the Lee Clan Association here.
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