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Yunhuan Lou and Qiuanjulu Mansion in Zili Diaolou Village, Tangkou Township, Kaiping — watchtower houses built with overseas remittances

Budgeting Your Wuyi Roots Trip: What It Actually Costs

Budgeting Your Wuyi Roots Trip: What It Actually Costs \\nFor over 150 years, money has flowed from overseas Chinese communities back to the Wuyi (\\五\\邑) region of Guangdong province \\— first as remittances that built railroads, schools, and nearly two thousand fortified towers across the countryside, and now as roots-trip spending by diaspora descendants returning…

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Enping: Meaning, Origin, and the Forgotten Corner of the Wuyi Diaspora

Between 1840 and 1940, over two million people left the five counties of the Wuyi (\五\邑) region in southern Guangdong \— one of the largest sustained regional migrations in modern history. Taishan (\台\山) sent its sons to build the transcontinental railroad and fill San Francisco's Chinatown. Kaiping (\开\平) raised diaolou towers with Canadian gold and…

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The Guo (郭) Surname: From Zhou Dynasty Nobility to the Wuyi Diaspora

The Guo (郭) Surname: From Zhou Dynasty Nobility to the Wuyi Diaspora The Guo (郭) surname carries one of the longest continuously documented lineages in Chinese history — three thousand years from the Zhou dynasty’s founding brothers to the diaspora communities of the Wuyi (四邑) region (trace your own surname origins with our Surname Compass).…

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