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Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane Passenger list 19 May 1937 Jakarta-Shanghai via Hong Kong, Xiamen

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-06-21 18:22

Passenger list Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane, 19 May 1937, Jakarta (Batavia) to Shanghai via Hong Kong and Xiamen (Amoy). It contains the name of David van Gelderen, returning from a long leave in the Netherlands.

<a href="https://old.gwulo.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke_Java-China-Paketvaart_Lijnen">https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke_Java-China-Paketvaart_Lijnen" rel="noreferrer nofollow">nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke_Java-China-Paketvaart_L...</a>
m.s. Tjisadane was in use from 1931 to 1947.

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1937
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Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane Passenger list 19 May 1937 Jakarta-Shanghai via Hong Kong, Xiamen

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-06-21 18:19

Passenger list Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane, 19 May 1937, Jakarta (Batavia) to Shanghai via Hong Kong and Xiamen (Amoy). It contains the name of David van Gelderen, returning from a long leave in the Netherlands, to Shanghai, where he worked for Unilever.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937
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Wesselingh family archives: Xiamen (Amoy) bronze bowl, found 1938

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-11-17 05:51

Jan Wesselingh was an employee of Netherlands Harbour Works Co. from Amsterdam, working in Guangzhou (Canton) before WWII and in Hong Kong after WWII. I was brought in contact with two of his sons by Theodor A.R. Strauss, 1988-1993 secretary of Nederlandse Reünisten Vereniging China (NRCV, Dutch Reunists Association China), of which Jan Wesselingh was a member.

According to tradition, this bronze bowl was found during dredging works by Netherlands Harbour Works Co. in Xiamen in 1938. The bowl has a flat surface and lettering or symbols at the bottom (3 photos).

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1938
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Wesselingh family archives: Xiamen (Amoy) bronze bowl, found 1938

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-11-17 05:48

Jan Wesselingh was an employee of Netherlands Harbour Works Co. from Amsterdam, working in Guangzhou (Canton) before WWII and in Hong Kong after WWII. I was brought in contact with two of his sons by Theodor A.R. Strauss, 1988-1993 secretary of Nederlandse Reünisten Vereniging China (NRCV, Dutch Reunists Association China), of which Jan Wesselingh was a member.

According to tradition, this bronze bowl was found during dredging works by Netherlands Harbour Works Co. in Xiamen in 1938. The bowl has a flat surface and lettering or symbols at the bottom (3 photos).

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938
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Wesselingh family archives: Xiamen (Amoy) bronze bowl, found 1938

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-11-17 05:47

Jan Wesselingh was an employee of Netherlands Harbour Works Co. from Amsterdam, working in Guangzhou (Canton) before WWII and in Hong Kong after WWII. I was brought in contact with two of his sons by Theodor A.R. Strauss, 1988-1993 secretary of Nederlandse Reünisten Vereniging China (NRCV, Dutch Reunists Association China), of which Jan Wesselingh was a member.

According to tradition, this bronze bowl was found during dredging works by Netherlands Harbour Works Co. in Xiamen in 1938. The bowl has a flat surface and lettering or symbols at the bottom (3 photos).

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938
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Amoy's International Settlement

Submitted by David on Mon, 2010-05-24 21:27

We're just back from a long weekend in Xiamen, or Amoy as it used to be called. It was opened to British trade in 1842 by the Treaty of Nanking, the same treaty that ceded Hong Kong to the British. And though Amoy's international settlement never matched Shanghai or Hong Kong for size, it beats them soundly in one respect - most of the old settlement is still standing today.

Here's a summary of our weekend. I'll start with a brief introduction to where it is and its history, then cover what we saw in the old town and the international settlement (as you'll see, they were in nearby but separate locations). There's alsoa bonus entry on a tunnel network I stumbled upon, and some notes on getting there and around.

On with the history...

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