Wee Bin (Chinese: 黃敏; pinyin: Huáng Mǐn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ûiⁿ Bín) born in China in about 1823, was a Chinese migrant of the mid-nineteenth century who founded what was, at the time, Singapore's largest Chinese shipping firm.[1][2][3][4][5]
At the age of thirty-three, Wee Bin founded Wee Bin & Co., under the chop Hong Guan, in 1856. The firm was based in Market Street, and became prominent in the 1860s.[6] Wee ran the firm according to Western business practices.[2][7] Wee Bin, through his firm, carried on business as merchants and shipowners.[1] At first, he began business relations with various trading houses in Bali (then part of the Dutch Indies), and eventually became the greatest importer of products from that port. He also traded in all kinds of earthenware, and later on built up a fleet of over twenty vessels for the Chinese and Dutch Indies trade. With increasing interest in the tin mining industry and the need for more and more people to work the mines, Wee Bin was also responsible for carrying migrant workers from China to work in the Straits Settlements.[8]
Wee Bin married the daughter of Kiong Kong Tuan. He died in 1868 at the age of 45, leaving an only son, Wee Boon Teck, and an only daughter. Wee Bin's daughter married Lim Ho Puah, who would later take over Wee Bin & Co., before passing it on to his fourth son Lim Peng Siang.[9]
^ abOne Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore by Ong Siang Song, 1923
^ abFamily and State: The Formation of a Sino-Thai Tin-mining Dynasty, 1797-1932 By Jennifer Wayne Cushman, Craig J. Reynolds Contributor Craig J. Reynolds Published by Oxford University Press, 1991; ISBN 0-19-588966-5, ISBN 978-0-19-588966-6; p. 63, 67, 172
^Records and Recollections (1889-1934): Chinese Women, Prostitution & a Welfare Organisation By Neil Jin Keong Khor, Keat Siew Khoo, Izrin Muaz Md. Adnan Published by Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2004; ISBN 967-9948-32-3, ISBN 978-967-9948-32-5; p. 58
^Home port Singapore: a history of Straits Steamship Company Limited, 1890-1965 By K. G. Tregonning, Published by Oxford University Press for Straits Steamship Co. ltd., 1967
^Chinese business enterprise, Volume 4 by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, Published by Taylor & Francis, 1996, ISBN 0-415-14293-8, ISBN 978-0-415-14293-9, p 57
^Asian culture, Issue 28 by Singapore Society of Asian Studies, published by Xinjiapo Yazhou yan jiu xue hui, 2004
^Family and state: the formation of a Sino-Thai Tin-mining dynasty, 1797-1932 South-East Asian historical monographs by Jennifer Wayne Cushman, Craig J. Reynolds, published by the Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-19-588966-5, ISBN 978-0-19-588966-6
^An Official Guide to Eastern Asia, Trans-continental Connections Between Europe and Asia ... By Japan Dept. of Railways, Japan Tetsudōin, Japan Teikoku Tetsudōchō Published by s.n., 1915 Item notes: v.4; p. 32
^Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources
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