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Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Sat, 2010-01-23 08:38

 I have a question or two about life in Hong Kong at the turn of the 20th century.  If I were a wealthy Chinese businessperson living on HK Island, where would I live?  At Midlevel?
  Do you have any pictures or details of how a typical Chinese family would live if they had a great deal of money?  What kind of home would it be?  What would the interior look like?  What sort of things would set them apart from others or the colonials?  What would be considered luxury and available?  What did wealthy Chinese families do? 

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Submitted by HK8082 on Fri, 2020-05-01 01:09.

While not at the turn of the century, I went to school with 2 of Robert Hotungs great grandchildren. They lived at 99 Repulse Bay Road. The house was kind of a Tudor style with a yard, by no means large, but just to have a house in HK was amazing. It's called Kui Lok Villa now, don't know if the Ketterer house (the father was American, the mother Mary Hotung) was demolished. A former classmate who lived in HK in the 90's told me it had been sold to Japanse businessmen and was used as a get away.

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