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From China to America

Goon Dip was born, by most accounts, in 1862 in the village of Seung Gok, Guangdong Province, China, to Goon Feng Shew and Chin Shee. “If he [Goon Dip] hadn’t stepped in there would be no China Day” (Ho). A Seattle Public Library branch is planned as part of a new mixed-use project.

In the 1980s, the Seattle area welcomed thousands of new immigrants from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

“Sharing an adventurous spirit, the two became close friends as she assisted the young man with learning the English language and helped him adapt to the customs of his adopted country” ("McBride, Ella"). 46). As one of the biggest literary event, it receives millions of votes every year.

chin gee hee biography books

Draft available online, accessed July 30, 2007; there is no formally published form as of that date.

  • Eric Scigliano, "Seattle's Chinese Founding Father", Seattle Metropolitan, May 2007, p. Chin Gee Hee built one of the first brick structures to rise from the ashes of the Great Fire of that year, at 208-210 S Washington Street.

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  • Willard G. Jue, "Chin Gee-hee, Chinese Pioneer Entrepreneur in Seattle and Toishan", The Annals of the Chinese Historical Society of the Pacific Northwest, 1983, 31:38. He praised the community's mix of "citizens of Negro, Japanese, Chinese, and Philippine ancestry" and declared, "In the past, this unique and colorful area has been referred to by various inaccurate and non-descriptive designations" (Seattle P-I, p.4, July 24, 1951).

    Goon Dip, a leading merchant and consul for the Chinese government, built the Milwaukee Hotel in 1911. What makes him different, compared with other Chinese leaders, was that he had a diplomatic position and he handled it very well over two very different  regimes” (Ho interview).

    His obituary in the Seattle Daily Times eulogized: “Whenever the presence of a member of the consular corps was required -- at a University ceremony, at the laying of a cornerstone, at a grand opera performance -- there would be Goon Dip” (Seattle Daily Times).

    Accessed online July 19, 2007.

  • Chinese Emigration, the Sunning Railway and the Development of Toisan by Lucie Cheng and Liu Yuzun with Zheng Dehua, Amerasia 9(1): 59-74, 1982.

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    • David Takami, Chinese Americans HistoryLink.org Essay 2060, February 17, 1999, includes two photos of Chin.
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    NameChin, Gee Hee
    Alternative names
    Short description
    Date of birthJune 22, 1844
    Place of birth
    Date of death1929
    Place of death
    Categories:
    • Taishanese people
    • Chinese emigrants to the United States
    • Chinese businesspeople
    • People from Seattle, Washington
    • 1844 births
    • 1929 deaths

    Goon Dip was a phenomenon -- a visionary and wealthy entrepreneur, public servant, philanthropist, and the most influential Chinese in the Pacific Coast during the early years of the twentieth century.

    32 says he was in Port Gamble in 1862.

  • ^ So say Scigliano and Willard Jue (1983). In 1909, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition celebrated the growing importance of Asian trade to Seattle. He had some luck, which he acknowledged and honored, but he also had to breach the virulent anti-Chinese wall of the times to attain success.

    Goon Dip turned to Japanese immigrants, but restrictions would curtail that source as well. Workers of the Pacific World: Logging and Labor in & around the Mills". On July 23, 1951, Seattle Mayor William F. Devin (1898-1982) proclaimed a new name for the neighborhood: "International Center" (or "Centre" in one press report). Caucasian-owned banks didn’t invest in the Chinese community and the Chinese didn’t seek their help.

    He was a member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the China Club, and an owner or officer in several businesses.

    Goon Dip died on September 12, 1933, at the Milwaukee Hotel. Mobs drove the Chinese out of Tacoma (November 3, 1886) and Seattle (February 7, 1886), and attempted but failed to expel them from Olympia. The man brought him along on his passage to America, where Chin worked in a placer mine before making his way to Port Gamble, Washington, where he worked in a lumber mill.[6][8]

    While still in North Kitsap, he learned a reasonable amount of English, and made friends with several Suquamish, including the family of Chief Seattle.

    As buildings were being demolished during Seattle's 1909 Jackson Street regrade project, Goon Dip persuaded Chinese businessmen to move Chinatown away from the Elliott Bay tidelands, around the Columbia Railroad Depot, to the area east of the new King Street Station at 2nd Avenue and Jackson Street.