Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t3.4

v2.c10.s2.t3.4

**Family and Life** Su Manshu’s grandfather, Su Ruiwen made his fortune from international trade, and his father Su Jiesheng was a tea merchant who lived and worked in Yokohama for a British firm and had one wife and three concubines, with his first concubine being a Japanese. Su Manshu was born in Yokohama, but his mother Wakako did not marry with his father and instead, was the younger sister of his father’s first concubine. So, Su Manshu was an illegitimate and mixed-blood child. When he was a small child, he was taken back to Guangdong, separated from and since then never saw his mother, since his mother was not allowed to entre the door of Su’s family. He was considered as an outcast and