A comprehensive new biography, Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: The Life and Times of the Remarkable Choie Sew Hoy, has been co-written by descendant Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew and her husband Trevor Agnew. Choie Sew Hoy was a careful man, and he considered the wording for the sign above his new store’s entrance. In Australia, Choie Sew Hoy had soon become used to being addressed as Mr Sew Hoy, and this was the name he normally used in his business dealings with non-Chinese. His store signboard had "Choie Sew Hoy" in Chinese characters but simply "Sew Hoy" in English. Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: The Life and Times of the Remarkable Choie Sew Hoy, by Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew and Trevor Agnew, Canterbury University Press, August, 2020, RRP$49.99.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 23, 2020 15:22 UTC