Iconic Chinese-Australian entrepreneurs celebrated

A portrait of Miss Gladys

A portrait of Miss Gladys Source: SBS

A pioneering Chinese Australian family who built up a retail empire has been immortalised in a new exhibition. The years after the Sym [[sim]] Choons settled were clouded by the oppressive White Australia policy. But they succeeded despite it, as Rhiannon Elston reports.



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