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David Zee: “When my grandparents wanted to get married, they didn’t get approval from the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security.”

Descendant of the first generation of Chinese who settled in Katendrecht (Rotterdam), David Zee (61) wrote Chinese Kees, a book about his family history. In the 1930s, Katendrecht was Europe's biggest Chinatown, a past now only visible through the survival of some Chinese named street signs.

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