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The Huangmaohai Cross-Sea Corridor at dusk, the 31-kilometre bridge opened in 2024 that cut the Zhuhai-to-Taishan drive to about 30 minutes.
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Getting Around Wuyi: Trains, Buses, and Hiring a Driver for Your Roots Trip

Getting Around Wuyi: Trains, Buses, and Hiring a Driver for Your Roots Trip The Railway the Villagers Built, the Railroad That Brought Them Home For 150 years, the story of Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì) — the five counties of Kaiping, Taishan, Enping, Xinhui, and Heshan that form Guangdong's great qiaoxiang (侨乡, qiáoxiāng), the "overseas Chinese homeland"…
August 10, 20260Comments

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Yunhuan Lou and Qiuanjulu Mansion in Zili Diaolou Village, Tangkou Township, Kaiping — watchtower houses built with overseas remittances
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Budgeting Your Wuyi Roots Trip: What It Actually Costs

Budgeting Your Wuyi Roots Trip: What It Actually Costs \\nFor over 150 years, money has flowed from overseas Chinese communities back to the Wuyi (\\五\\邑) region of Guangdong province \\— first as remittances that built railroads, schools, and nearly two thousand fortified towers across the countryside, and now as roots-trip spending by diaspora descendants returning…
July 31, 20260Comments

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A Kaiping diaolou watchtower rising above village rooftops, a UNESCO World Heritage structure built with overseas remittance money bearing surname signatures
Chinese Genealogy Roots Travel Surname History Wuyi Diaspora

Your Surname is Your Compass: How to Trace Your Wuyi Roots Starting With Just a Family Name

The Surname You Already Hold Your surname is not merely a name inherited from your ancestors. It is a compass — a pointer to a specific village, a specific migration history, a specific set of documentary holdings, and a specific overseas settlement pattern. If you know your surname, and perhaps just one fragment — “Taishan”…
June 11, 20260Comments

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