Chinese Festival Night Program, 1923
Date Published
: fund raising, advertising
: Sydney
: Sydney
: 1923
Chinese Festival Night 1923
In 1923, the board of Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital organised a funding drive it called a "Community Campaign" aiming to secure some £23,000. The Chinese community of Sydney, led by G.Y.T. Quoy and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, agreed to contribute its "Chinese quota" by organising a Chinese Festival Night, to be held at the Sydney Town Hall.
This booklet with its Australian and the then Chinese Republic's Five-Colored Flag" (五色旗) prominently displayed, was published outlining the event which was to feature Long Tack Sam (郞 德 山), a Shandong born, US based entertainer who regularly toured Australia. Other aspects of the entertainment included a variety of local Chinese Australian entertainers including Yep Jook-Yee Quoy as soprano.
Others featured in the program were, Dr Reginald Jaep Wong, a graduate of Sydney University who had worked at RPAH as a surgeon before moving to practice in Hong Kong; advertisements from leading Sydney Chinese businesses such as the Peking Cafe, herbalists, produce merchants, and oddly a San Francisco health notice in Chinese.
Chinese Festival Night 1923
Chinese Festival Night 1923
For a complete copy of the Chinese Events Night Program
1. "Five-Colored Flag" (五色旗; wǔ sè qí) (Five Races Under One Union flag) used five horizontal stripes representing the five major nationalities of China: the Han (red), the Manchu (yellow), the Mongol (blue), the Hui (white), and the Tibetan (black). It was replaced by the KMT or Nationalists Party's flag after the Northern Expedition of Chiang Kai-Shek in 1928.
