Although wealthy Hong Kong Chinese traders, shippers, agents, purchasers, and administrators were discriminated against politically and socially, they nonetheless held a place in society which could not be ignored.
事實上，從事商貿、船東、代理商、買辦、文員而經濟富裕的在港華人，雖在政治、社會上受歧視，地位卻無法被忽視。