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Thomas Foon Chew
Thomas Foon Chew (Simplified Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese: 赵灿垣; Pinyin: ''zhàocànyuán'') (1889–February 25, 1931) was an immigrant from China who became the richest Chinese Americans, Chinese-American in California and became known as the "Asparagus King" in the 1920s. Chew was born in Heshan, Guangdong in 1889. In 1897, at the age of 8, he immigrated to California with his mother to join his father, Sai Yen Chew, who owned the Precita Canning Company in San Francisco. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have prevented their entrance, but they received an exemption for Chinese merchants. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 earthquake destroyed the family's cannery, Chew's father established the Bayside Canning Company, in Alviso, San Jose, Alviso at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, and brought his son into business with him. Thomas Chew expanded the cannery from tomatoes to other fruit and vegetables, and added canneries elsewhere. In the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heshan, Guangdong
Heshan (), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Hokshan, is a county-level city of Jiangmen City in the southern part of Guangdong Province, China with a total land area of and a population of 530,684 inhabitants as of 2020 census and some 200,000 internal migrants. The city is now being conurbated with Jiangmen and so included in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Pearl River conurbation with more than 65,57 million inhabitants. There are approximately 360,000 people of Heshan origin or descent living in other parts of the world, particularly in the Americas such as Chile, Peru and the United States. Situated about south west of the provincial capital, Guangzhou, Heshan occupies a strategic location on the Pearl River Delta, commanding the northern gateway to Jiangmen's five prefectures. Along the opposite bank of the same river, lie the two municipalities of Nanhai and Shunde. Heshan is around three hours from Hong Kong and one hour from Macau by road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |