Reminiscences of Choy Jun-ke 1970
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- Name
- Cai, Zengji (Interviewee)
- Chin, Lillian Chu (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Choy Jun-ke 1970
- Other Titles
- Oral history interview with Cai Zengji, 1970; 蔡增基口述回憶錄, 1970; 蔡增基口述回忆录, 1970
- Abstract
- 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; reh abilitating shipping; second Japanese invasion; refuge in Macao, hazardous journey to Shiukwan; trek to Chungking, return to America
- Collection Name
- Chinese oral history project
- Subjects
- China Economic conditions 1912-; China Foreign relations 1912-1949; China Politics and government 20th century; Cai, Zengji
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1970
- Note (Biographical)
- Government official, banker, manager
- Note (Language)
- In Chinese and English; interviews transcribed, translated, and edited by Lillian Chu Chin
- Note
- Original draft written in mid-1950s; in 1969 this draft became basis for the interviews
- Interviewed by Lillian Chu Chin on May 19, 1970
- Language
- Chinese
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13848355
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-0dvk-xm56
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.