Daisy Kwok’s Shanghai: Life in China before and after 1949
Daisy Kwok’s Shanghai: Life in China before and after 1949
In the interwar years a number of prominent Chinese Australian families moved to Hong Kong and Shanghai where they built famous department store chains. While much has been written about the ‘Four Great Department Stores’, little is known of the family dynamics which underpinned these businesses. This chapter uses the private archives of Chinese Australian woman Daisy Kwok, whose life would forever be affected by her father’s decision to move the family to Shanghai to work for Wing On & Co. in the 1920s. It argues that we need to pay greater attention to the issue of return migration in overseas Chinese history, especially its impact on women’s lives.
Keywords: Wing On & Co, return migration, department store, overseas Chinese, business history
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