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Rose Chan (1925 – May 26, 1987) was a cabaret dancer turned "Queen of Striptease" who has become something of a legend in Malaysia. Her brazen exploitation of her sexuality, predating Madonna, made her a controversial icon in her homeland. In the late 1970s, she received a RM3 million offer from an American publisher for her autobiography, but the deal fell through when she insisted on USD$3 million.

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Rose Chan

Rose Chan (1925 – May 26, 1987) was a cabaret dancer turned "Queen of Striptease" who has become something of a legend in Malaysia. Her brazen exploitation of her sexuality, predating Madonna, made her a controversial icon in her homeland. In the late 1970s, she received a RM3 million offer from an American publisher for her autobiography, but the deal fell through when she insisted on USD$3 million.

Childhood
Born Chan Wai Chang in Soochow, China, to acrobat parents, Chan was brought to Kuala Lumpur in 1931, at the age of six, by her adoptive mother. She had no formal education, save for eight months of schooling at the age of 12. Even at that young age, she demonstrated her entrepreneurial spirit by taking photographs for classmates, charging them 15 cents, and earning 10 cents a shot. Late for school on a few occasions because she had to collect the photographs from the shop, her mother stopped her schooling after the school complained.

Still aged only 12 years, she started working in a button-making shop, earning six gantangs of rice and one loaf of cornbread a month plus 12 cents per thousand buttons. In a day, she could churn out a few thousand buttons from coconut shells with a machine. She next worked at making mosquito nets, where she was better paid, with eight gantangs of rice, six katis of sugar, two bottles of oil, and one loaf of cornbread a month.

In 1941, when Chan was 16, her mother arranged her to marry an elderly Chinese Singaporean harbor contractor to become his fourth wife, as her boyfriend could not afford the kind of dowry that was expected. For her dowry, the contractor offered SGD$3,000, a pair of diamond earrings, a locket, a chain, and a bracelet, which were taken by her mother. Her marriage, however, broke up after a few months, when her husband got fed up with her mother’s constant request for SGD$1,000-$2,000 each time. He sent her back to Kuala Lumpur and gave her SGD$600 a month, on condition that her mother got her a servant to do the housework. Her mother, however, pocketed the money. One day, when her husband dropped by the house on his way to the Penang races, he saw Chan doing housework. Angered, he not only stopped sending money, but stopped seeing her entirely.

Career years
With her allowances cut, and her finances in dire straits, Chan sold her last gold bracelet for over RM$300, and took a train to Singapore the following year to meet her husband. Unfortunately, he refused to accept her. She stayed behind to become a cabaret dancer at the Happy World, her husband’s favorite haunt, in order to spite him. In the cabaret, she proved herself an accomplished dancer, and was runner-up in two national championships:

All-Women’s Ballroom Dancing Championships in Singapore in 1949;
Miss Singapore beauty contest in 1950.
As a result of her success, she was in great demand, and started dancing at as many as five cabarets at a time.

In 1951, her entrepreneurial spirit began to surface again, and Chan opened her own show, touring the whole of then-Malaya. The turning point of her career came unexpectedly the following year, and transformed her from a hotshot cabaret girl to the "Queen of Striptease" at the age of 27. While performing at the Majestic Theatre in Ipoh, her brassiere snapped. The enthusiastic applause from the audience caught her by surprise, and set her thinking: "Here I dance all night and sweat so much, and nobody claps. My bra breaks and they clap".

Spotting a market for snapping-underwear, Chan shot to fame overnight with an act like no other in Malaya. The "Striptease Queen" was born. She was just as quick to earn the "Charity Queen" moniker. Even before her unexpected fame, she had started to do charitable work by dancing in aid of the Nanyang University Fund. Chan brought her striptease act to Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Alor Star, always donating part of her proceeds to charity, benefiting children and old folks' homes, institutions for the blind, and tuberculosis patients.

In 1954, Chan upped the ante for revues by introducing circus stunts that included:

her famous python-wrestling act;
bending iron rods, stuck to the base of her throat;
carrying a man on her shoulders;
placing planks across her body, and having motorcycles ride over her.
Her daring stunts made her famous, and she took her act around the world, including Germany, France, Britain, Australia, and Indonesia.