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Find articles and updates on how the Lew Hing family story is being shared, globally.
Article about Lew Hing on World Journal
Roland Hui, author of Chinaman Tycoon: The Life and Times of Lew Hing (1858 - 1934) , published a wonderful article about Lew Hing on World Journal, a prominent national Chinese American newspaper, on 1/26/2025. Click here to read the article on WorldJournal.com. It is written in Chinese. If you need an English translation, open the article in a Google chrome tab, and there should be an option to have Google translate it to English, on the top right of the webpage. We've also provided screenshots of the Google translated version of the article, in the slideshow to the left. Lew Hing's name was translated as Liu Xing.
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Many thanks to Roland, for all of his work to research and share Lew Hing's story!
Lew Hing features in the Hong Kong History Museum
Lew Hing is featured as a prominent overseas Chinese businessman in the Hong Kong History museum's “Multifaceted Hong Kong” Exhibition Series: Sojourning in Gold Mountain – Hong Kong and the Lives of Overseas Chinese in California . The museum has sent us photos of the display and a document (download below) with the description of the artifacts. Lew Hing also features as the owner of the China Mail Steamship Company in the museum's education worksheet for children that accompanies the exhibit.
The series will be displayed throughout 2025 and 2026.
Exhibit at the SF Main Library
"Chinaman Tycoon: the Life and Times of Lew Hing" was an exhibit displayed on the sixth floor of the SF Main Library from October 4th, 2024 to January 2nd, 2025. It was curated by Lew Hing descendant Bruce Quan and the San Francisco History Center. Bruce took a gathering of some of our family members on a wonderful tour of the exhibit, walking us through Lew Hing's life display by display, artifact by artifact, story by story. The video to the right is a full length recording of the tour. To see more photos and videos of the display, visit our history page and scroll down to the bottom.
It's so exciting to have a virtual oral history of our roots as a family! Now we can easily share stories of our ancestors' tenacity and generosity. From setting up free relief camps with food and shelter for thousands after the 1906 earthquake to sending canned goods to relieve hunger in Europe after WW1, our family has had a global impact that we can learn from and aspire to.
The documents that were displayed in the exhibit are always available for hands on viewing at the San Francisco History Center, on the 6th floor of the SF Main Library. Request the Quan and Lew collection at the front desk of the center. Go to our gallery page for a close view of some of the family portraits, and a video that allows for an interactive virtual tour of the collection.