Chen Yongshui, a grandson of one of Tan Kah Kee's cousins, remembers how when he graduated from Jimei Middle school in 1960, almost all the other pupils in his class were overseas Chinese.
陳嘉庚的姪孫陳永水回憶，一九六○年他自集美中學畢業時，一個班級裡十之八九都是僑生。集美成了「馬蜂窩」