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Yeap Chor Ee (葉祖意) was a businessman and philanthropist. He was born in the village of Nan'an, Fujian, China, in 1867. He came to Penang at the age of 17 in the 1880s virtually penniless, and found work as a barber.
Nov 10, 2019 · The book details the life of Yeap Chor Ee, from his marriages – one wife back in China to look after the ancestral home, and three in Penang, who combined would have 10 children – to his...
The House of Yeap Chor Ee was the first home of Yeap Chor Ee, a young immigrant who came to Penang in 1885 and worked as a barber before becoming a captain of industry at the turn of the 20th century.
Nov 18, 2019 · Yeap, who is now working on a second book, about Oei Tiong Ham, Yeap Chor Ee’s business partner and the “sugar king of Asia”, and his daughters (one of whom flew a plane even before Amelia Earheart), said she hoped the book would help people understand the history of human migration.
The House of Yeap Chor Ee was the first home of Yeap Chor Ee, a young immigrant who came to Penang in 1885 and worked as a barber before becoming a captain of industry at the turn of the 20th century. The building was turned into a Social History Gallery in 2008.
The House of Yeap Chor Ee was the first home of Yeap Chor Ee, a young immigrant who came to Penang in 1885 and worked as a barber before becoming a captain of industry at the turn of the 20th century. The building was turned into a Social History Gallery in 2008.
Nov 17, 2019 · WHEN Yeap Chor Ee left his hometown in southern China in 1885 to seek his fortune in Southeast Asia – then known as Nanyang, or the southern seas – he was just one of 125,000 people fleeing a land struck by famine and rebellion.
Housed in an exquisitely restored three-storey shophouse mansion, this interesting museum is dedicated to a former resident, itinerant barber-turned-banker, Yeap Chor Ee. In addition to family photos and mementoes, the museum has exhibits on Chinese immigration to Penang.
May 13, 2015 · The House of Yeap Chor Ee hosts a neat cluster of 19th-century antiques, Peranakan furniture and old portraits that belonged to one of Penang’s richest trader, Yeap Chor Ee.
Jul 29, 2024 · Yeap Chor Ee (1868-1952) was the legendary ‘Grand Old Man of Penang’ who started Penang’s first local bank Ban Hin Lee in 1918. His life was an inspiring story of how grit and enterprise transformed a humble barber into the richest man in Penang. Yeap Chor Ee was a business partner of Oei Tiong Ham, the ‘Sugar King of Asia’.
