Title
Remittance envelope delivered to Swatow from Phor Thong Chean
Year/Period
1960s–1970s
Region
Swatow, China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 9.2 x 5.5 cm
Accession No.
2024-00665
Collection of
Credit Line
Collection of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
TThis is a Chinese remittance envelope delivered between the 1960s and 1970s. The envelope was delivered from a Chinese remittance house Phor Thong Chean (Pu Tong Zhuang普通庄) at 217 Rochor Road. It was delivered through qiaopi (侨批), a private mail delivery system established by early Chinese immigrants in the early 19th century to deliver money and family letters to their home villages in China.
