Lam Woo

Lam Woo was a highly successful Chinese building contractor based in Hong Kong in the early twentieth century. He exemplifies the marginal group of people who joined the Chinese diaspora because of poverty and political turmoil. Lam Woo belonged to the educated, westernised, Christian Chinese culture that supported the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.

Lam Woo a fost un antreprenor chinez de mare succes in constructii cu sediul in Hong Kong la inceputul secolului XX. El exemplifica grupul marginal de oameni care s-au alaturat diasporei chineze din cauza saraciei si a tulburarilor politice.