CHINESE MAN IN QING DYNASTY COSTUME
Portrait of Hokkien businessman and philanthropist Cheang Hong Lim in official costume of Qing dynasty. Many overseas Chinese leaders bought official titles from the Qing government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These titles improved the social status of wealthy Chinese who had been able to afford them.
c.1905
19980005161 - 0097
87,527/29
94975
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Boden-Kloss Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
Updated with contribution from Khoo Ee Hoon on 19 April 2015

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Portrait of Hokkien businessman and philanthropist Cheang Hong Lim in official costume of Qing dynasty. Many overseas Chinese leaders bought official titles from the Qing government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These titles improved the social status of wealthy Chinese who had been able to afford them.

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