Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?iUniversity of Hawaii Press, 01/01/1997 - 276 من الصفحات In addition to portraits and photographs, Chun Afong, Hawaii's first Chinese millionaire, was the subject of a popular short story by Jack London, and his colorful family - in particular his thirteen beautiful daughters by a Hawaiian woman of noble descent - inspired a Broadway musical. But here at last is the real story of the "Merchant Prince of Honolulu," whose business empire stretched from the Pearl River Delta across the Pacific to Hawaii and the U.S. mainland. The result of extensive documentary research and interviews with Afong's numerous descendants in Hawaii, North America, and Asia, this lively biography traces Afong's life from his early years in China, to his highly lucrative business ventures in Honolulu as a planter and merchant in the mid-1800s, to his sudden return to China in 1890 and yet another round of successful business and financial dealings that would continue until his death in 1906. |
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... Hawai'i Bob Dye A Latitude 20 Book University of Hawai'i Press Honolulu © 1997 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed.
... Hawai'i Bob Dye A Latitude 20 Book University of Hawai'i Press Honolulu © 1997 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed.
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Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?i Bob Dye. © 1997 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Dye , Robert Paul ...
Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?i Bob Dye. © 1997 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Dye , Robert Paul ...
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... Hawai'i , and by phone to Puerto Rico , had little information about Afong be- yond what had appeared in the popular press and in fiction . All of them , however , encouraged the project , especially Kay Afong Kramer , Chi - hang and ...
... Hawai'i , and by phone to Puerto Rico , had little information about Afong be- yond what had appeared in the popular press and in fiction . All of them , however , encouraged the project , especially Kay Afong Kramer , Chi - hang and ...
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... Hawai'i State Library ; Bishop Museum Library ; Hamilton Library , University of Hawai'i ; The Hoover Library ; Bancroft Library , University of California , Berkeley ; Stir- ling Library , Yale University ; Harvard - Yenching Library ...
... Hawai'i State Library ; Bishop Museum Library ; Hamilton Library , University of Hawai'i ; The Hoover Library ; Bancroft Library , University of California , Berkeley ; Stir- ling Library , Yale University ; Harvard - Yenching Library ...
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... Hawai'i from there . The tall palms lining the road looked like the palms in the pho- tograph of Afong's Honolulu home on Nuuanu Avenue . She concluded that she felt comfortable because the place reminded her of her Hawai'i home ...
... Hawai'i from there . The tall palms lining the road looked like the palms in the pho- tograph of Afong's Honolulu home on Nuuanu Avenue . She concluded that she felt comfortable because the place reminded her of her Hawai'i home ...
المحتوى
Honolulu | 5 |
The Speculators Club | 18 |
KitFat Wife | 27 |
Coolies | 36 |
Annexation Postponed | 45 |
The Chinese Merchants Ball | 55 |
Julia | 63 |
Civil Wars | 76 |
Columbia and Hawaii Nei | 128 |
The Honorable Afong | 136 |
The Moreno Affair | 146 |
Smallpox | 171 |
The China Treaty | 178 |
Afong Resigns | 183 |
The Coronation | 191 |
The Great Chinatown Fire | 198 |
Pig TradePoison Trade | 85 |
The Contract Labor Controversy | 92 |
Happy Days in Nuuanu | 102 |
A Lei of Red Lehua | 111 |
A Mandarins White Button | 121 |
The Opium Bribe | 207 |
Exclusion | 217 |
Epilogue | 224 |
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