Remittance letter with envelope delivered from Ding Sheng Hui Dui

Title
Remittance letter with envelope delivered from Ding Sheng Hui Dui
Year/Period
30th October 1970
Region
Swatow, China
Dimension
Object size: 15.2 x 13.1 cm,
Object size: 7.7 x 5.2 cm
Accession No.
2024-00664
Credit Line
Collection of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

This is a Chinese remittance letter dated to 1970, delivered from a remittance house named Ding Sheng Hui Dui (鼎盛汇兑) at 14 Merchant 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. This remittance letter was delivered through the Swatow remittance network.