Rose Chan – The greatest nite-club performer of the last century

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1925: Born Chan Wai Chang in Soochow.
c. 1931 (aged 6): Brought from Soochow to Kuala Lumpur by her adoptive mother.
1937 (aged 12): Enrolled for school for eight months, after which she worked for a button-making shop; shop makes buttons out of coconut shells.
c. 1938 (aged ~13): Worked for a mosquito-net cottage industry.
1941 (aged 16): Married a Chinese Singaporean harbor contractor to become his fourth wife.
1942 (aged 17): Became a cabaret dancer at the Happy World cabaret, after her husband rejected her.
1949 (aged 24): Runner-up at All-Women’s Ballroom Dancing Championship in Singapore.
1950 (aged 25): Runner-up in the Miss Singapore beauty contest.
1951 (aged 26): Opened her own show, touring the whole of Malaya.
1952 (aged 27): Turning point of her career when she transformed herself to the “Queen of Striptease”.
1954 (aged 29): Introduced her famous python wresting act, and other circus stunts.
July 1957 (aged 32): Embraced Islam and married second husband, Indonesian Mohamed Nazier Kahar, changing her name to Rosminah binti Abdullah.
1960 (aged 35): Divorced with Mohamed Nazier Kahar.
[unknown]: Married her third husband, Chong Yew Meng.
[unknown]: Married fourth husband (name and date of marriage, unknown).
1967 (aged 42): Banned from performing in KL, following a police raid on her revue at BB Park.
September 1970 (aged 45): Arrested in Perth for performing indecently in public, but was acquitted; charged again in Perth for prostitution at a massage parlor and fined A$60.
1970s: Received many public complaints for her shows.
1973 (aged 48): Lodged a corruption report in July to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against a cultural officer in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports; Malaysian authorities took away her performing licence in the same year.
1976 (aged 51): Retired for good, her last striptease taking place in Kuala Lumpur.
1976-1979 (aged 51-54): Managed a music band opened a restaurant, and gave curative massage in Seremban, all ending in failure; received a RM3 million offer from an American publishing firm for her autobiography, but the deal fell through when she insisted on USD$3 million.
c. 1980 (aged 55): Diagnosed with breast cancer, and given about 18 months to live.
1980s: Opened Galant, a one-stop entertainment shop at Transfer Road, with one-time manager, Lee Kai Hong.
1987 (aged 62):
April: Bed-ridden by cancer at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital.
May 20-24: Golden Maid lounge at Burmah Road organized a 5-night charity show to raise funds for Chans medical expenses. Patrons were charged RM10 per head during each of the two daily shows, in which daughter Irene performed.
May 26: Died at her home in Butterworth.

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