Portrait of a Group of Chinese Women , Not before 1930s
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The family photograph of the Yip family in Vancouver’s Chinatown features a group of stylish women wearing fashionable clothes, shoes, handbags and jewellery with a mixture of Chinese and Western styles. Yip Sang (1845-1927) came to Canada as a labourer in 1881 to work on a goldfield and then became the paymaster of the Canadian Pacific Railway Supply Company. In 1888, Yip established the Wing Sang Company in Vancouver’s Chinatown to run trans-Pacific import and export businesses. He was a prominent businessman, social activist, and leader of the Chinese Canadian community in the early twentieth century. By the mid-1990s, the Yip family has the largest Chinese family lineage in Canada. The photograph was taken by the Yucho Chow Studio, one of the most famous photography studios, to capture the vibrant everyday life of Chinese immigrant families in early twentieth century Vancouver. It shows how family reunions provide a unique platform for Chinese Canadian women to demonstrate their hybrid fashion, where generational differences in dressing are evident.

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