(Versi BM)

The Lims in China are not very well known. The one Lim who have appeared in Chinese history is the Opium War stalwart Lin Zexu whose forceful opposition to the opium trade was a primary catalyst for the First Opium War in China from 1839–42.

But among 50 million Chinese all over the world in the Chinese Diaspora, who have made the other countries in the world outside China their home, like Thailand and Malaysia, the Lims seem to have left bigger footprints.

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