Disappearing Miri : Kuomintang Flag

 The overseas Chinese and the Chinese immigrants of Sarawak continueed to raise the Kuomintang flag in Sarawak until 1949. For reasons only known to the Brooke Government and the Colonial Governmentm the Chinese immigrants of Sarawak continued to use the KMT flag. Perhaps this was because until 1949 most of the Chinese who came to live in Sarawak were still hoping to back to China and they had no specific identity whatsoever to make them permanent citizens of Sarawak.

Chinese schools continued to raise the KMT flag and students pledged their loyalty to Sun Yat Sen.

But after the Communist Party of China took over the government of China, the changes came to the overseas Chinese and their politics. The British Colonial Government took a more stringent stand on immigrant Chinese politics.

The new developing nations of South East Asia also changed their economic, social and political policies.

Kuomintang adhered to the thoughts and philosophies of Sun Yat Sen, the father of Modern China:

The Three Principles of the People (Chinese: 三民主義; pinyin: Sān Mín Zhǔyì; also translated as the Three People's Principles, San-min Doctrine, or Tridemism^[1]) is a political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen as part of a philosophy to improve China made during the Republican Era. The three principles are often translated into and summarized as nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people (or welfarism). This philosophy has been claimed as the cornerstone of the nation's policy as carried by the Kuomintang; the principles also appear in the first line of the national anthem of Taiwan.

I cannot remember when the photos of Sun Yat Sen were taken down from the walls of Chinese homes and schools. I also cannot remember when was the last time the Kuomintang flag was flown in Sarawak (or Miri.)