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Contemporary overseas immigrants. Photo taken December 5, 2014. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

The history of overseas Chinese dated back to Shang Dynasty (about 1600 BC-1046 BC) and was intertwined with major events in China and the world as a whole in modern times.

The initiative of establishing an overseas Chinese history museum was finally realized fifty years after Tan Kah Kee, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader, first put forward the proposal in 1960. It was a gray modern building enclosed with traditional Chinese corridors, and that's how the first national museum of its kind looks like.