Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Choy Jun-ke : oral history, 1970.Biographical NoteGovernment official, banker, manager
Scope and ContentsSon of Chinese immigrants to Hawaii; return to China, 1911; Commissioner of finance, Canton, 1919-20; Commissioner of land, Canton, 1926; general manager Canton-Hankow Railway, 1928; managing director Shanghai-Nanking Railway and Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, Shanghai, 1928-29; mayor of Hangchow, 1930; commissioner of finance, Shanghai, 1931; commissioner of land, Shanghai, 1933-34; visits abroad; rehabilitating shipping; second Japanese invasion; refuge in Macao, hazardous journey to Shiukwan; trek to Chungking, return to America
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