My Life as a Squint-eyed Chink is a true story which, while based primarily on the journey of an individual, embeds a wide array of topics which may be of interest to researchers:

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• ancestry, cultural heritage, back to roots, genealogy, DNA, mitochondrial DNA,
• ancient historic records, Records of the Grand Historian, Bamboo Annals, ancient China, Chinese history,
• Asia,
• Asian empowerment, self-actualization, Asian stereotypes, Chinese stereotypes, model minority,
• discrimination, racism, xenophobia, discrimination against Chinese,
• racical issues, racial supremacy, Sino-supremacy, eugenics, ignorance and stereotypes,
• authoritarian regimes, dictatorship, General Chiang Kaishek, generalissimo, draconian measures,
• autobiography, memoir, biography, bibliography,
• backpackers, backpacking, shoestring travel,
• bodyguard agency in 1900s China, boxer rebellion,
• British territorial designs on Southeast Asia, effects of colonialism, British Empire, the Commonwealth of Nations, British High Commission,
• Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Catholic, priest, monk,
• CIA, MI6, intelligence folklore, secret service,
• cold war, geopolitico-speak, geopolitics,
• child abuse, statute of limitations, surpressed memory syndrome,
• dysfunctional families, traumatic childhoods, sibling relations,
• China, five-kings period, pre-China era, Manchuria, Manchurians,
• Eunuchs and Mandarins of Imperial China,
• Chinese magistrates and judges, imperial examination system,
• Chinese dialects, Mandarin, Cantonese,
• literature, poetry, poems,
• Chungking, Qongqing, Kunming during WW2, Beijing, Shanghai, Peking, Hong Kong,
• classical music, piano, soprano,
• grace notes, acciaturas, cross-cultural work,
• anti-miscegenation laws, the Magnusson Act, railroad builders,
• cults,
• cultural exchanges, culture shock,
• death, life after death, near-death experiences,
• funerals, wakes, memorials, rituals, mourning, Chinese funeral, Buddhist funeral,
• detoxification, drug addiction, cold turkey, rehab, reabilitation, death sentence, heroin,
• westernized Chinese, banana syndrome, ,
• diaspora, migration, immigrants, immigration, emigration,
• dignitaries, diplomats, VIPs,
• education,
• elections, electoral system, electoral college,
• Eurocentric propaganda,
• FAB 100, Foreign Affairs Bureau,
• Flying Tigers,
• floor-show dancers, strip clubs,
• free speech,
• generation-Xer,
• guitar,
• Hakka, Hakka-Punti clan wars, Ming loyalist, Pearl River Delta,
• history,
• Indonesia, PKI, Sukarno, genocide, konfrontasi,
• money, inheritance, insurance, testament and will,
• islam, muslim brotherhood,
• Jantelag,
• Japanese WW2 atrocities, Nanking, Unit 731, katana, war crimes,
• kung fu, martial arts,
• hollywood, yellow hordes, Fu Manchu, blaxploitation, mexican stand-off,
• Kuomintang, nationalists, Taiwan,
• the development of language and writing, linguistics, logograms, ideograms, pictograph,
• Lee Kuan Yew, PAP, Devan Nair, Jeyaratnam, Lee Singapore,
• Lyndon Johnson's domino principal,
• Madagascar during colonial era, Malagasy roots,
• Malay, Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesians, austronesia, austronesians,
• Oceanic, Madagascan, aborigines,
• 2nd-class citizens,
• martial arts,
• military service, SAF, IDF, Israelis,
• General MacArthur, General Patton, Bonus Army,
• MCP,
• MP,
• nationality vs. culture vs. ethnicity & race,
• orientalism, othering, unassimilable, perpetually foreign,
• political correctness,
• Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome,
• religion and spirituality,
• personal journey, spiritual journey,
• family secrets,
• Singapore, Singapore history, Sir Stamford Raffles, Little India, Malaysia,
• Stockholm, Sweden,
• Vietnam war, the American War, Laos,
• WW2, WWII,
• effects of 9/11, Islamic Terrorism,
• published authors, world-renowned author, celebrity author,

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