User:Altercari/Draft:Parsees in Hong Kong

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• Signs of a Colonial Era. Hong Kong University Press, 2009
• The Zoroastrian Diaspora

Hong Kong harbours a well-established Parsee community, much like the older diaspora communities in Britain, Kalawi and Kenya.

Notable Parsees in Hong Kong

Jeejeebhoy with his Chinese secretary.

Mody Road in Tsimshatsui.

• Dhunjibhoy Ruttonjee Bisney, after whom Bisney Road is named.
• Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, opium trader and philanthropist, on the board of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
• Rustom Keki Jokhi, philanthropist and cotton trader.
• Shapurji Fakirji Jokhi, sentenced to death for supplying aid to prisoners during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, also known for philanthropy.
• Robert Hormus Kotewall, merchant who served on the Legislative and Executive Councils, Rotary Club benefactor. Kotewall Road and St Joseph's College's Kotewall Hall are named for him.
• Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, founder of the famous cross-harbour Star Ferry and hotelier.
• Hormusjee Naorojee Mody, founding benefactor of the University of Hong Kong, property developer and broker.
• Dhun Jehangir Ruttonjee, chairman of the Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association and lawmaker on the Legislative Council.
• Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee, founder of the Ruttonjee Sanitorium and brewer.

History

Zoroastrians traded with China as far back as the Sassanid Empire.

The first Parsee known to travel to the South China seas was Hirji Jivanji Readymoney.

Other

• The Parsee Cemetery in Happy Valley
• The Hongkong Directory indicates there was a Parsee "church or clubhouse" located at no. 11 Shelley Street