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Merchant prince of the Sandalwood Mountains : Afong and the Chinese in Hawaiʻi

Bob Dye (Author)
In addition to portraits and photographs, Chun Afong, Hawaii's first Chinese millionaire, was the subject of a popular short story by Jack London, and his colorful family - in particular his thirteen beautiful daughters by a Hawaiian woman of noble descent - inspired a Broadway musical. But here at last is the real story of the "Merchant Prince of Honolulu," whose business empire stretched from the Pearl River Delta across the Pacific to Hawaii and the U.S. mainland

Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, ©1997