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.

Location

Guangzhou

Estimated Date

1920s

Tags

• river
• flag
• boat
• transportation
• building
• junk
• architecture
• pier
• city
• waterfront
• Canton
• Bund
• urban
• department store
• company
• Trobridge

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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