AURORA Daranee Teng of Denver did not have to survive a war to experience colonialism and the generational trauma caused by it. Teng’s great-grandmother, Lim Cher Liang, grew up in 20th century Indonesia, where Dutch colonizers enslaved and exploited people for centuries. Around 1912, just as the Indonesian nationalism movement was beginning to grow, she escaped to Guangdong Province in southeastern China. She adopted a Chinese name, eventually got married and had a family there.