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A silver-and-letter (yinxin) remittance envelope with Chinese calligraphy, stamps and postmarks.
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Vancouver Taishan Remittance: How Qiaopi Letters Crossed the Pacific
Vancouver Taishan Remittance: How Qiaopi Letters Crossed the Pacific For a quarter-century around the turn of the twentieth century, the busiest thing crossing the Pacific between British Columbia and Guangdong was not a steamship or a passenger — it was a letter with money folded inside. Between 1895 and 1915, thousands of Taishanese men working…
September 11, 20260Comments