Oei Hui-lan
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Oei Hui-lan, known as Madame Wellington Koo, was a Chinese-Indonesian international socialite and style icon, and from late 1926 until 1927, the First Lady of the Republic of China. She was married fi
Oei Hui-lan in 1922, with her son Yu-chang Wellington Koo Jr., photographed by Henry Walter Barnett
Colonial Semarang, where Madame Wellington Koo grew up
Oei Hui-lan, then Mrs Beauchamp Caulfield-Stoker, a.k.a. Countess Hoey Stoker, and her eldest son, Lionel Montgomery Caulfield-Stoker, in 1920
Chinese statesman V. K. Wellington Koo in court uniform
Wellington Koo
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Koo Vi Kyuin, better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a Chinese diplomat.
Oei Hui-lan
…of the Republic of China. She was married firstly to British consular agent Beauchamp Caulfield-Stoker, then to the pre-communist Chinese statesman Wellington Koo, and was a daughter and heiress of the colonial Indonesian tycoon Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen. Both the parents of Oei Hui-lan hailed from the…
Koo in 1945
Koo in 1912
1920 Autochrome by Auguste Léon