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The Hakka Diaspora Beyond Guangdong: Meizhou’s Guest People and Their Global Routes

Two exits from one province Guangdong's emigration ran at least two different machines, and only one left from a coast. The lane the world knows sailed from the delta edge — Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping, Heshan, the counties grouped as the Wuyi — on credit-ticket passages: the Wuyi, Fujian and Chaozhou diaspora routes. The second…
September 26, 20260Comments

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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

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