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He became a missionary, shipped off to British Malaya to save souls, caught malaria and returned to California to heal.

The cause was taken up by Wu Lien-teh, a Chinese doctor from British Malaya, who is often credited with saving many lives during the 1910 outbreak of pneumonic plague in northeastern China.

Davidson had come to British Malaya in 1951 at the age of 20 to work on a Unilever plantation.

It was 1926, and his homeland was known as British Malaya.

Malaysia was a natural fit for the expansion, Wang said, not only because of active government cooperation, but because Tan Kah Kee, the founder of Xiamen, originally made his fortune in British Malaya, modern-day Malaysia and Singapore.