Cheng Jiahua (1905-1976), a native of Qianshan, Anhui, graduated from the Department of Economics of Yanjing University. He joined the diplomatic field in his early years and served as the consul of the Republic of China in Indonesia, Samoa and other regions. In 1948, he was sent to British Malaya as the consul of the Republic of China in Malacca (September 1948-1950). After the Kuomintang government moved to Taiwan in 1949, he chose to stay in Malacca. Later he joined the Malayan Chinese Association, taught briefly at Peifeng Middle School, and then served as the principal of Malacca Yumin Middle School (1961-1967). This article attempts to outline his life in Malaya after the closure of the Republic of China consulate in British Malaya in 1949. An effort is made to extract from the unpublished “Sim Mow Yu’s Diaries” to inspect for the contacts between him and Sim Mow Yu. Initially his life in the Malacca Chinese community was quite fruitful, but later as the glamour of an excon.....

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Sim Mow Yu’s spent 52 years writing a diary to intervene in life, and to criticize and interpret it. With the framework of thought in life ””, he creatively transformed cultural thoughts and finally reconstructed the symbol of the Malaysian Chinese spirit. This mode of interpretation and recon struction is the same as the research method of the diary researcher Ho Khai Leong. It is not only a paradigm of inheritance from Malaysian Chinese, but also a thought process that originates from life and then gives back to life...

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