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The Women Who Refused Marriage: Amahs, Sworn Spinsters, and the Wuyi Domestic Workers Who Built Lives Across the South China Sea

The Woman at the Pier n nIn 1934, a fourteen-year-old girl stepped off a coastal steamer at Singapore's Clifford Pier. The humidity wrapped around her like a wet cloth. The harbor smelled of salt, diesel, and copra — nothing like the mulberry groves and fish ponds of home. She wore the simple cotton clothes of…
June 15, 20260Comments

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Traditional Chinese zupu clan genealogy book with ancestral records, representing the search for Heshan family roots
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Tracing Your Heshan Ancestors: A Guide to Clan Genealogy

Tracing Your Heshan Ancestors: A Guide to Clan Genealogy in the Fifth County “My grandfather was from Heshan—how do I find our clan?” If you’ve asked this question, you’re not alone. Thousands of Heshan descendants across Singapore, Malaysia, North America, and beyond are searching for their family roots. Many know only that their ancestors came…
March 9, 20260Comments

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Elder placing incense at an ancestral altar inside a traditional Chinese clan temple during the Qingming Festival.
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Qingming in the Five Counties: A Diaspora Descendant’s Guide to Tomb-Sweeping in Wuyi

Qingming in the Five Counties: A Diaspora Descendant’s Guide to Tomb-Sweeping in Wuyi Every spring, a quiet migration takes place. From San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore, thousands of overseas Chinese board planes bound for a small region in southern China. They carry no suitcases of gifts—just themselves, and sometimes, a lifetime of questions. They…
March 3, 20260Comments

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