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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-114TitleCh'aa Ts'aan Yam (Hakka)DescriptionCh'aa Ts'aan Yam (Hakka) standing in front of a wooden wall, dressed in hand-made clothing, boots with soles several inches thick, and a matching hat. He's holding a sack and a stick in his left hand and a cane in his right.
Reverse of duplicate image number P-A564.1-2: [top center] "345" / "As Ch'an YS'aan' Yam (Hakka) ready for the road. Home made clothing - Boots with soles several inches thick."
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 3", by James Ng, pub. Sept. 1999. Image on page 103.
Caption from book: "The mad Hakka doctor and poet, Chan Tsaan Yam (1831-1908) lived at Adams Flat, near Milton. He is No. 906 in Don's 'Roll of Chinese', and his name translate as 'Illustrious Envoy', misprinted in the Outlook as 'Illustrious Energy', the name retained by director Leon Narbey as the title of his romantic film on two Otago Chinese miners. Chan was in and out of Seacliff mental hospital from 1900 and died there in 1906. [Kirkland collection]"
Duplicate: P-A564.19-20, Ng-FS.1-114TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions24mm x 35mmDate Createdc. 1901CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - IndividualChinese in New ZealandChinese Gold MiningSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-114TitleCh'aa Ts'aan Yam (Hakka)DescriptionCh'aa Ts'aan Yam (Hakka) standing in front of a wooden wall, dressed in hand-made clothing, boots with soles several inches thick, and a matching hat. He's holding a sack and a stick in his left hand and a cane in his right.Reverse of duplicate image number P-A564.1-2: [top center] "345" / "As Ch'an YS'aan' Yam (Hakka) ready for the road. Home made clothing - Boots with soles several inches thick."
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 3", by James Ng, pub. Sept. 1999. Image on page 103.
Caption from book: "The mad Hakka doctor and poet, Chan Tsaan Yam (1831-1908) lived at Adams Flat, near Milton. He is No. 906 in Don's 'Roll of Chinese', and his name translate as 'Illustrious Envoy', misprinted in the Outlook as 'Illustrious Energy', the name retained by director Leon Narbey as the title of his romantic film on two Otago Chinese miners. Chan was in and out of Seacliff mental hospital from 1900 and died there in 1906. [Kirkland collection]"
Duplicate: P-A564.19-20, Ng-FS.1-114
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions24mm x 35mmDate Createdc. 1901CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - IndividualChinese in New ZealandChinese Gold MiningSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.Click on the image to add
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Don, Alexander Rev, Ch'aa Ts'aan Yam (Hakka). Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 16/04/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127696
