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The Chinese Club () is a private business and dining club in Central, Hong Kong. Its members include senior local business people and, when originally established, those holding the high level, and exclusively Chinese, position of comprador in Western trading firms. ==History== The Chinese Club was established in 1897 by Australian born Tse Tsan-tai (謝纘泰 or 謝贊泰), a social and political reformer, a merchandiser and a reporter, who vowed to overturn the Qing dynasty by force. At the time of its founding, Chinese (or part Chinese) men were never proposed for membership at the prestigious, and Caucasian, Hong Kong Club irrespective of their social or business standing in the community. Tse, together with Cheung Tsoi, Luk King-fo and Leung Lan-fan, decided to found a parallel club for Chinese to meet and socialize, and to raise funds from wealthy local businessmen for the revolution. Tse was already friends with business leaders sympathetic to the cause, such as Robert Ho Tung. Ho Tung became the first chairman, projecting a less revolutionary image in the minds of the Hong Kong Police, reducing the likelihood of Police raids on the Club.〔http://chineseclub.hk/web/100_years.pdf〕 The Chinese Club was originally in Wyndham Street, but moved a few months later to Queen's Road. Starting in the 1920s it was housed on the top floor of the Bank of Canton Building at 6 Des Voeux Road Central (opposite Prince's Building) until 1964. The Club moved into its own premises in 1967. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Chinese Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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