His grandfather had been a subsistence farmer and fisherman, but his father and two uncles had been swept up in the tide of internationalism, becoming part of the first wave of expatriate Chinese.
陳嘉庚的祖父過的是「耕漁自給」的生活，而他的父輩 3 兄弟卻遠渡重洋去闖蕩，成了第一代華僑。