‘Chang Wu Gow, The Chinese Giant’, [Zhan Shichai]
Nationality - Chinese
Birth - Fuzhou, China, 1841
Marriage - Catherine Santley
Death - Bournemouth, England, 1893
Career - Known as “Chang, The Chinese Giant”, he was born in Fuzhou, China. He was said to be between 234 and 245 centimetres tall. He toured the world, travelling to Europe, the United States and Australia. He arrived in Victoria, from the United States, at the end of 1870. He toured Victoria in 1870-1871. He was accompanied by his first wife who chatted with customers in English and sold photographs of the troupe. After his first wife died, he married Catherine Santley, an English woman, and they had two sons. After retiring from touring he established a business selling tea and curios in Bournemouth, England.
Copyright - Subject: Chang Eng, with manager. Photographer: A.W. Burman, 209 Bourke Street East, Melbourne. Courtesy: National Library of Australia, nla.obj -137379552-1
Chang Wu Gow
Geelong Advertiser, 25 January 1871, p. 2
Chang, the Chinese giant, has been taking the air of afternoons round Melbourne and suburbs in a carriage drawn by four greys. He wears a light coloured tweed suit and complacently partakes now and again of sugar plums from a small paper bag, as he sits coiled up in the vehicle. Of course he has been an object of universal attention. He is evidently inclined to be as liberal of his presence among the gamins as the Little Tom Thumb party were.
Argus, 25 January 1871, p. 5
The Theatre Royal was fairly attended last night. Among the spectators was the new arrival, the Chinese giant, Chang. Some idea of his height may be gathered from the fact that he had to stoop considerably to pass through the entrance to the dress-circle.
Geelong Advertiser, 27 January 1871, p. 3
The Chinese giant Chang will hold his first public levee at St. George’s Hall, Bourke street, this evening. A number of workmen have been busily engaged during the whole of the morning in hanging a multitude of handsome Chinese lanterns, and otherwise preparing the hall for the due accommodation of the visitors. Owing to the fact that Mr Woodroffe’s troupe of glassblowers had only vacated the room just before, it was found impossible to get ready to-day for the proposed vice-regal interview to the giant, whose presentation to his Excellency has, therefore, been unavoidably postponed.
‘Chang Wu Gow, The Chinese Giant’, [Zhan Shichai]
Chinese
Fuzhou, China, 1841
Catherine Santley
Bournemouth, England, 1893
Known as “Chang, The Chinese Giant”, he was born in Fuzhou, China. He was said to be between 234 and 245 centimetres tall. He toured the world, travelling to Europe, the United States and Australia. He arrived in Victoria, from the United States, at the end of 1870. He toured Victoria in 1870-1871. He was accompanied by his first wife who chatted with customers in English and sold photographs of the troupe. After his first wife died, he married Catherine Santley, an English woman, and they had two sons. After retiring from touring he established a business selling tea and curios in Bournemouth, England.
Copyright - Subject: Chang Eng, with manager. Photographer: A.W. Burman, 209 Bourke Street East, Melbourne. Courtesy: National Library of Australia, nla.obj -137379552-1
Chang Wu Gow
Geelong Advertiser, 25 January 1871, p. 2
Chang, the Chinese giant, has been taking the air of afternoons round Melbourne and suburbs in a carriage drawn by four greys. He wears a light coloured tweed suit and complacently partakes now and again of sugar plums from a small paper bag, as he sits coiled up in the vehicle. Of course he has been an object of universal attention. He is evidently inclined to be as liberal of his presence among the gamins as the Little Tom Thumb party were.
Argus, 25 January 1871, p. 5
The Theatre Royal was fairly attended last night. Among the spectators was the new arrival, the Chinese giant, Chang. Some idea of his height may be gathered from the fact that he had to stoop considerably to pass through the entrance to the dress-circle.
Geelong Advertiser, 27 January 1871, p. 3
The Chinese giant Chang will hold his first public levee at St. George’s Hall, Bourke street, this evening. A number of workmen have been busily engaged during the whole of the morning in hanging a multitude of handsome Chinese lanterns, and otherwise preparing the hall for the due accommodation of the visitors. Owing to the fact that Mr Woodroffe’s troupe of glassblowers had only vacated the room just before, it was found impossible to get ready to-day for the proposed vice-regal interview to the giant, whose presentation to his Excellency has, therefore, been unavoidably postponed.
