Chin Gee Hee
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Chin Gee Hee, courtesy name Chàngtíng (暢庭), Cheun Gee Yee, was a Chinese merchant, labor contractor, and railway entrepreneur, who made his fortune in Seattle, Washington before returning to his native village in Guangdong province, where he continued his successes.
Chin Gee Hee in his office in Seattle circa 1904
Monument to Chin Gee Hee in Taishan City, Guangdong
The Canton Building (photographed 2007)
Quong Tuck Company safe. The Chinese writing on the safe says "May national treasure fill the coffer" (Chinese: 國寶盈庫; pinyin: guó bǎo yíng kù) and "May numerous sources of wealth come in." (Chinese: 財源廣進; pinyin: cáiyuán guǎng jìn)
Taishan, Guangdong
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Taishan, alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning (新寧), is a county-level city in the southwest of Guangdong province, China. It is administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. During the 2020 census, there were 907,354 inhabitants, but only 433,266 were considered urban. Taishan calls itself the "First Home of the Overseas Chinese". An estimated half a million Chinese Americans are of Taishanese descent.
Taicheng Subdistrict
Chixi (labeled CH'IH-CH'I (CHIKKAI) 赤溪) (1954)
Taishan railway station, which is built to resemble the former Ningcheng Station of the Sunning Railway