Wellington Koo
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Koo Vi Kyuin, better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a Chinese diplomat.
Koo in 1945
Koo in 1912
1920 Autochrome by Auguste Léon
Koo in the 1920s
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
Wellington Koo
…marry again. The Oei family, a wealthy huaren (ethnic Chinese) family from the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia), had decided that Koo should marry Oei Hui-lan. During the last months of the Paris peace conference, Koo was often seen with Oei at dinners and social receptions. Koo's romance with Oei, whom he…
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