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Reminiscences of Choy Jun-ke : oral history, 1970.

Creator: Cai, Zengji
Project: Chinese oral history project.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :Transcript 341 pages Sound recording 2 reels
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Government official, banker, manager

Scope and Contents

Son 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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