A Great Emporium Sculptures along Boat Quay

Singapore

Historical stories are told visually and three dimensionally by these statues evident along the Boat Quay. The finance industry went through traditional moneylanding to today’s modern stock market dealers. This sculpture showing the Chinese coolie and the boss (in hokkien ‘towkay’). Do you know who why these men are wearing a queue (or pigtail) in those days?

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