Sun Company Building (大新公司), Guangzhou (廣州)
Collection
Identifier
Tr02-076
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Tr02-076. Co. = Company. The twelve-story Sun Company Building (大新公司 'Daxing gongsi') was the tallest building in Guangzhou until 1940. According to Virgil K. Y. Ho: 'Within it was a department store, a hotel, a bank, a restaurant and a roof-top amusement park' ('Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period' [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005], p. 36). See Tr02-074, Tr02-077, Sw04-053, and Sw06-153.
Caption in album or on mount
SUN CO. BUILDING / CANTON.
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Location
Estimated Date
1920s
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
