People · philanthropist, Buddhist patron
Luo Jialing (Liza Hardoon)
罗迦陵Luó Jiālíng · 1864–1941
Shanghai-born wife of Silas Hardoon, Buddhist patron of Aili Garden, and sole heir of his estate until her death in 1941.
Luo Jialing (罗迦陵, Luó Jiālíng), known in English as Liza Hardoon, was born in Shanghai in 1864 to a French father and a mother from Fuzhou, according to Chinese Wikipedia. She married the Baghdad-born merchant Silas Aaron Hardoon in 1886 (one source says 1895) and became the patron behind Aili Garden’s Buddhist projects, including a printed edition of the Buddhist canon from 1909. After his death in 1931 she inherited the estate, which a British court in Shanghai upheld against cousins who claimed it from Baghdad in 1937. She died on 3 October 1941, and the fight over her own will passed to the adopted children.
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Silas Aaron Hardoon哈同Wife and heir of Silas Aaron Hardoon
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Sources
- 1.Luo Jialing (Chinese Wikipedia; cites Tang Peiji et al., Shanghai Jews, 1992) (罗迦陵), Wikipedia contributors, Chinese Wikipedia — origin; marriage; will and estate; Buddhism; death and burialwikipedia
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- 3.Inside Hardoon's Garden (Inside Hardoon's Garden), Historic Shanghai, historic-shanghai.com — first paragraphwebsite
- 4.The Hardoon estate case (Chinese Wikipedia) (哈同遗产案), Wikipedia contributors, Chinese Wikipedia — February 1937; October 1941wikipedia
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