The Red Doors

Denis Byrne In the village of Zhuxiuyuan, in China’s Guangdong Province, there stands an Art Deco mansion that was built in the 1930s by the Kwok (郭氏兄弟) brothers, founders of the Wing On department store chain (永安集團), who had begun their entrepreneurial careers in the 1890s as banana traders based in Sydney’s Chinatown. The three-storey...