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Historic Kaiping diaolou watchtower in Zili Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site built by returning overseas Chinese in the early 20th century
Practical Guide Roots Trip Planning Wuyi Heritage
Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There
Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There The Five Counties (五邑, Wǔyì) of Wuyi — Taishan (台山), Kaiping (开平), Xinhui (新会), Enping (恩平), and Heshan (鹤山) — sent over two million people overseas between 1840 and 1940, creating one of the largest sustained migrations in modern history. Today, an estimated 1.3 million…
July 13, 20260Comments
Migration History Museums
Inside the Taishan Overseas Chinese Museum: What 150 Years of Qiaopi Letters Reveal About Love and Distance
Between 1840 and 1949, the Wuyi region sent over two million people overseas — and for a century, the only thread connecting them to home was paper. The qiaopi (侨批, qiáopī) — remittance letter — doubled as financial transaction and intimate family document: a few silver dollars folded inside a few sentences. Money and love…
July 4, 20260Comments
qiaoxiang Return Migration Taishan
Haiyan Overseas Chinese Farm: The Taishan Town That Built a Home for Returned Chinese
Between 1840 and 1940, the Siyi (四邑) region of Guangdong sent over two million people overseas — one of the largest sustained migrations in modern history. Taishan alone contributed an estimated 1.3 million emigrants, hollowing out villages and transforming local society into a qiaoxiang (侨乡) — an emigrant homeland dependent on remittances and defined by…
July 3, 20260Comments