Dutch Chinese search for their roots in China increasingly often. Foreign Desk-editor Cindy Huijgen paid a visit to Wang An Oe, who was born and raised in the south of the Netherlands and successfully found her Chinese family.
“This is my ancestral home, where one of my ancestors played as a little boy,” says Wang An Oe, looking at a panorama picture placed on a shelf in the middle of her living room. The shelf is reminiscent of an altar, but for her, it serves more as a memory of an emotional trip to China.