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Taishan, a prominent city within the Wuyi region, is famous for its role in Chinese migration and its beautiful natural landscapes. This category covers Taishan’s cultural heritage and its significance in the broader context of Wuyi’s history.

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Taishan

Taishan, a prominent city within the Wuyi region, is famous for its role in Chinese migration and its beautiful natural landscapes. This category covers Taishan’s cultural heritage and its significance in the broader context of Wuyi's history.

Roasted coffee beans scattered on a surface
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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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

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