TY  - ADVS
TI  - Alfonso Zarate Sycip
KW  - Men and women in business
KW  - 1936
KW  - bankers
KW  - banking
KW  - chinese banking and finance
KW  - civic leaders
KW  - manila''s 400
KW  - merchants
KW  - philippine chinese general chamber of commerce
KW  - social register
N1  - A merchant, civic leader, and former president of the Philipine-Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Sycip was a byword in Chinese banking and finance in his time. Born in 1883 on Calle Juan Luna opposite La Insular Bldg., Alfonso''s forbears arrived in Manila from Amoy, China. He was sent to China when he was only seven years old to attend the Anglo-Chinese College in Foochow. Fourteen years later, he came back to Manila, settled in Cebu and took charge of several commercial establishments in that southern island. He severed all business connections in Cebu in 1924 and left for Manila. There, he managed Chua Tek and Yek Hua, and became a byword in Chinese banking and finance; With prints
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