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Chonglou, Taishan: A Village and Its Diaspora Two Chonglous on the Same Map Chonglou, in Taishan (台山), was never one town — by its own count it has long been…

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Sep 2026

Guangdong History History and Culture

The Fall of the Song Dynasty: Yamen, Mongol Conquest, and Wuyi’s Origins

The Fall of the Song Dynasty: Yamen, Mongol Conquest, and Wuyi's Origins The Battle at the Doorstep The battle that ended the Song dynasty was fought within sight of the…

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Chinese National Day: How the Diaspora Marks October 1

Chinese National Day: How the Diaspora Marks October 1 On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong stood on the Tiananmen rostrum in Beijing and proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic…

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Sep 2026

Diaspora History Labor Migration

Chinese in Hawaii: The Sugar Plantations That Built the Pacific’s First Chinatown

Chinese in Hawaii: The Sugar Plantations That Built One of America's Oldest Chinatowns Before the gold rushes, before the transcontinental railroads, before the coolie ships that carried laborers to Cuba…

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Sep 2026

Canada Chinese Diaspora gold rush migration-history Taishan Wuyi

Chinese in Canada Before the Head Tax: BC Gold Rush, Victoria, and the Road to 1885

Chinese in Canada Before the Head Tax: BC Gold Rush, Victoria, and the Road to 1885 For roughly a quarter-century — from the spring of 1858 until the summer of…

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The Chung Yeung Festival: Autumn Grave-Sweeping and Ancestor Veneration in the Wuyi Diaspora

The Chung Yeung Festival: Autumn Grave-Sweeping and Ancestor Veneration in the Wuyi Diaspora On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, China marks Chung Yeung — the Double Ninth…

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Sep 2026

Chinese Diaspora Labor Migration Wuyi Diaspora

The New Zealand Chinese Poll Tax: £100 to Enter, and the First National Apology

Between 1881 and 1944, Chinese arrivals in New Zealand were made to pay a poll tax (人头税, réntóu shuì) — a fee no other migrant faced — a levy that…

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Sep 2026

Chinese Diaspora Coolie Trade Wuyi Diaspora

Peruvian Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Chifa, and Latin America’s Largest Chinese Community

Peruvian Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Chifa, and Latin America's Largest Chinese Community Between 1849 and 1874, somewhere between ninety thousand and one hundred and twenty thousand Chinese laborers — nearly…

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Aug 2026

Chinese Genealogy How-To Guides Primary Sources

Chinese Immigration Records in Australia: How to Find Your Wuyi Ancestor

Between 1851 and the early twentieth century, the Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì, the "five counties") region of Guangdong — Taishan (台山, Táishān), Kaiping (开平, Kāipíng), Enping (恩平, Ēnpíng), Xinhui (新会, Xīnhuì),…

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Aug 2026

Chinese Diaspora coolie-trade

Cuban Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Havana’s Chinatown, and the Caribbean Diaspora

Cuban Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Havana's Chinatown, and the Caribbean Diaspora When the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, the world's plantations did not suddenly go quiet. Sugar still had to be…

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Bringing Bones Home: How the...

Wuyi Returnees: The Overseas...

Coffee and the Returning Tast...

Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Pla...

Taishan Energy Economy: What...

Chonglou, Taishan: A Village and Its Diaspora

The Fall of the Song Dynasty: Yamen, Mongol Conquest, and Wuyi’s Origins

Chinese National Day: How the Diaspora Marks October 1

Chinese in Hawaii: The Sugar Plantations That Built the Pacific’s First Chinatown

Chinese in Canada Before the Head Tax: BC Gold Rush, Victoria, and the Road to 1885

The Chung Yeung Festival: Autumn Grave-Sweeping and Ancestor Veneration in the Wuyi Diaspora

The New Zealand Chinese Poll Tax: £100 to Enter, and the First National Apology

Peruvian Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Chifa, and Latin America’s Largest Chinese Community

Chinese Immigration Records in Australia: How to Find Your Wuyi Ancestor

Cuban Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Havana’s Chinatown, and the Caribbean Diaspora

Bringing Bones Home: How the...

Wuyi Returnees: The Overseas...

Coffee and the Returning Tast...

Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Pla...

Taishan Energy Economy: What...

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