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WINE IN CHINA – Changyu Pioneer Wine Company. Document in English, Singapore, 18 July 1896, an employment contract for Baron Max von Babo with Thio Tiauw Siat [Cheong Fatt Tze], to superintend production at the latter’s winery in Shantung [Shandong] province, where Cheong ‘is intending to commence … the business of planting and cultivating the Grape Vine and of preparing and manufacturing Wines and brandy or Cognac from Grapes’, outlining the proposed project, including the Baron’s salary of $200 per month plus the provision of a house and a share of profits, the contract to be cancelled if it is determined that ‘the grapes produced in China are not suitable for the manufacture of wines or spirits’, and the Baron to be forbidden from revealing to any external person ‘whether the wines or spirits … are good or bad or otherwise’, 5½ pages, folio , countersigned by John Burkinshaw, notary public; with a printed price list in English and Chinese for the Chang Yu Pioneer Wine Company, Limited, listing nine varieties of red wine and nine of white, with their prices, one leaf, 4to ; also related material including 8 laissez-passers for the Baron and Baroness to return from China to Vienna in September 1917 after the declaration of war between China and Austria-Hungary (5 in Chinese, two referring to his position as an expert of the Chang Yu Wine Company, others to his position as honorary vice-consul at Chefoo); with Babo’s nomination as lieutenant of the reserve in 1883, two letters in German, 1848, and five items of printed ephemera in Chinese. The Changyu Pioneer Wine Co. Inc., founded by the businessman and politician Cheong Fatt Tze (1840-1916, "the Rockefeller of the East"), is still in existence, as the oldest and largest wine producing company in China. Maximilian von Babo (1862-1933) was the son of Baron August Wilhelm von Babo, founder in 1860 of the pioneering viticultural college at Klosterneuberg; his brother Carl was also a travelling wine consultant, producing a pioneering report on wine in the Cape Colony in 1887.
WINE IN CHINA – Changyu Pioneer Wine Company. Document in English, Singapore, 18 July 1896, an employment contract for Baron Max von Babo with Thio Tiauw Siat [Cheong Fatt Tze], to superintend production at the latter’s winery in Shantung [Shandong] province, where Cheong ‘is intending to commence … the business of planting and cultivating the Grape Vine and of preparing and manufacturing Wines and brandy or Cognac from Grapes’, outlining the proposed project, including the Baron’s salary of $200 per month plus the provision of a house and a share of profits, the contract to be cancelled if it is determined that ‘the grapes produced in China are not suitable for the manufacture of wines or spirits’, and the Baron to be forbidden from revealing to any external person ‘whether the wines or spirits … are good or bad or otherwise’, 5½ pages, folio , countersigned by John Burkinshaw, notary public; with a printed price list in English and Chinese for the Chang Yu Pioneer Wine Company, Limited, listing nine varieties of red wine and nine of white, with their prices, one leaf, 4to ; also related material including 8 laissez-passers for the Baron and Baroness to return from China to Vienna in September 1917 after the declaration of war between China and Austria-Hungary (5 in Chinese, two referring to his position as an expert of the Chang Yu Wine Company, others to his position as honorary vice-consul at Chefoo); with Babo’s nomination as lieutenant of the reserve in 1883, two letters in German, 1848, and five items of printed ephemera in Chinese. The Changyu Pioneer Wine Co. Inc., founded by the businessman and politician Cheong Fatt Tze (1840-1916, "the Rockefeller of the East"), is still in existence, as the oldest and largest wine producing company in China. Maximilian von Babo (1862-1933) was the son of Baron August Wilhelm von Babo, founder in 1860 of the pioneering viticultural college at Klosterneuberg; his brother Carl was also a travelling wine consultant, producing a pioneering report on wine in the Cape Colony in 1887.