From the great-grandfather of Stanley Ho, Ho Si Man, this family with extremely prosperous offspring was destined to produce a series of very important figures. Ho Si Man, the great grandfather of Stanley Ho, was British. In the mid-19th century, he worked as a clerk in a foreign firm in Hong Kong and married a woman surnamed Shi from Bao'an, Guangdong. Mrs. Shi had five sons and three daughters. Ho Dong was the eldest son, and Ho Fook (Stanley Ho's grandfather) was the second...