Talk:Chin Gee Hee

Chinese sources

There is some very plausible looking material at http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=14; I imagine it is all accurate, but it's anonymous, and it's mostly drawn from Chinese language sources that I cannot evaluate. Someone with both Chinese and English could probably follow this up; I imagine that there is useful material there, and in what it points to. - Jmabel | Talk 08:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The translation looks accurate, but this being outside the scope of my knowledge as far as accuracy is concerned, I cannot really vouch for it. I suggest contacting the owner of the page via the "leave a comment" function and ask for citations as to where the passages came from. If it is a published source, then I believe that's sufficiently reliable. --Nlu (talk) 22:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, somehow I missed the big graphic on the page, which is the cover of a book/booklet about the person, but it doesn't give the location where the author of the Web page consulted, even, much less the publication location or the year of publication. The title of the book/booklet translates to: Tribute to the Statue of Mr. Chin Gee Hee, the President of the Xinning Railroad. --Nlu (talk) 23:06, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Other possible sources

A Google books search turns up a few pages of what appears to be a very detailed account of Chin Gee Hee and the Sun Ning Railway Company in Chinese American Voices from the Gold Rush to the Present by Judy Yung, Gordon H Chang, H Mark Lai, University of California Press (2006), ISBN 0520243102, including some verbatim documents. It also has a bit of a bibliography. Some of the English-language sources are the same ones I've used (or are ones I know they derived from). Some are not, and I will try to follow them up some time. There is also a Chinese-language source listed, Liu Pei Chi, Meiguo Huaqiao shi, xiu ban [A history of the Chinese in the United States of America, Vol. 2] (Taipei, Liming Wenhua Shiye Gufen Youxian Gongsi, 1981), p. 266-67, translator Ellen Yeung. - Jmabel | Talk 17:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

It would also be worth taking a look at the new data presented on the Chinese in Northwest America website: www.cinarc.org/business. Not it seems certain that Chin Gee Hee worked for a number of years as a domestic servant in North San Juan, California. By his own account, he was there until 1873, the year in which he arrived in Seattle and became a junior partner of Chin Chun Hock in the Wa Chong Company. The standard Willard Jue biography has him in Port Gamble working as a lumber mill hand and/or cook between 1862 and 1873. But it looks as though he didn't do that. If he spent any time in Port Gamble at all, it can only have been a few months, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.134.253 (talk) 00:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Ideographs

Ideographs and pinyin have been sorted out at Commons:Image:Chin Gee Hee ideographs.jpg, Commons:Image:Chin Gee Hee ideographs 2.jpg, Commons:Image:Chin Gee Hee ideographs 3.jpg, and Commons:Image:Chin Gee Hee ideographs 4.jpg. There are also some other related ones that may be of interest for related articles. - Jmabel | Talk 18:15, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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