He sent his son Elias David Sassoon to Canton, where he was the first Jewish trader (with 24 Parsi rivals).
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When the Treaty of Nanking opened up China to British traders, Sassoon developed his textile operations into a profitable triangular trade: Indian yarn and opium were carried to China, where he bought goods which were sold in Britain, from where he obtained Lancashire cotton products.
Elly Kadoorie arrived in Shanghai from Bombay in 1880 as an employee of the Sephardi Jewish firm David Sassoon & Sons.
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Siegfried Sassoon, English poet during World War I, grandson of Sassoon David Sassoon