Exploring South Africa: Sun Kuifu

Author: Lin Yin, Li Xiao
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: As one of the origins of Chinese civilization, Qilu culture has nurtured ancient sages, virtuous men, and upright scholars, and it has also nurtured over one million Qilu overseas compatriots scattered across more than ninety countries and regions around the world. They are either thriving in the business and industrial sectors, dominating academic forums, or renowned in the fields of culture and arts. Behind every successful person, there are deeply moving stories. In early 1994, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sun Kuifu stood under the crape myrtle tree by the roadside, gazing at the magnificent city with its European architectural style. At that time, on the streets of this world-famous international metropolis, groups of disheveled black people from all over South Africa were holding up banners and flags, shouting, and angrily waving their arms as they marched into the center of Johannesburg. The streets were littered with garbage and debris, some burned-out cars were haphazardly tilted on the roadside, and from time to time, the sound of broken shop window panes on both sides of the road and something falling from upstairs could be heard.