Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?i

Portada
University of Hawaii Press, 1997 M01 1 - 276 páginas
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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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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