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Chinese Diaspora Jiangmen Taishan

Coffee and the Returning Taste: How Jiangmen Became China’s Coffee Capital

Jiangmen — the prefecture in the western Pearl River delta that brands itself 中国侨都 (Zhōngguó Qiáodū, China's "overseas-Chinese capital") — did not grow a single coffee bean when its coffee industry began. What it had instead was a diaspora. For more than a century the people of the five Wuyi counties — Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui,…
October 13, 20260Comments

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Chinese Surnames Surname Archive

The Jiang (姜) Surname: From the Yan Emperor and Jiang Taigong to the Wuyi Diaspora

A River Named a People Most northern Chinese surnames trace to one of two ancestral stems: Ji (姬, Jī), the Zhou royal surname, and Jiang — written 姜 (Jiāng) — the older kind of name, a place before it was a family. The classical Guoyu preserves the charter: 「黄帝以姬水成，炎帝以姜水成」 — the Yellow Emperor came to…
October 12, 20260Comments

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World map of nineteenth-century Chinese emigration routes from Asia to the Americas and the Caribbean
Diaspora History Migration History Pan-Chinese

The Hakka Diaspora Beyond Guangdong: Meizhou’s Guest People and Their Global Routes

Two exits from one province Guangdong's emigration ran at least two different machines, and only one left from a coast. The lane the world knows sailed from the delta edge — Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping, Heshan, the counties grouped as the Wuyi — on credit-ticket passages: the Wuyi, Fujian and Chaozhou diaspora routes. The second…
September 26, 20260Comments

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