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Author Chia, Ruth

Title Chia Ann Siang and Family : the Tides of Fortunes
Published SG : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword by Professor Charlie Teo; Foreword by Freddy Lam; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I CHIA ANN SIANG; The Story of the Portraits; Where in China Did the Family Come From?; Chia Poh Eng's Business Acumen -- A Fortune Is Made; The Will of Chia Ann Siang; Discovery of the Tomb; "Wealth Will Not Last Three Generations"; The Watershed of the 20th Century; Part II THE THIRD SON; Chia Ann Siang's Third Son, Chia Keng Chiang; Death of Chia Keng Chiang; Keng Chiang's Career; A Loveless First Marriage; The Forbidden Wedding; The Curse; The Children from the Forbidden Union
Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way -- Or a War?The Untangled Knots; Part II A UNION O F TWO WEALTHY FAMILIES; The Families of Chia Ann Siang and See Ewe Lay; Family Traditions; Singapore in the 1950s; Soh Chye Hin, Centenarian; An Illustrious Family Tree; Appendix LOW KWAY SONG, ARTIST; Low kway song, Artist; Genealogy of the Chia Clan of Shitang; Notes; About the authors
Summary Chia Ann Siang was once one of Singapore's wealthiest landowners and merchants. His name lives on today in Ann Siang Hill in Chinatown, but little else is known about him, particularly his private life. This illuminating new book paints the most detailed portrait to date of his life and times in colonial Singapore and traces the changing fortunes of the Chia clan through the years. Born in Malacca in 1834, Chia joined Boustead and Co., an English trading company in Singapore, as a storekeeper at the age of 16. In just six years, he was made Chief Storekeeper, and was able to buy himself a hous
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Subject Chinese -- Singapore
Chinese.
Singapore.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Kow, Linda
Tiang Keng, Soh
ISBN 9789814868693
9814868698