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Mid-Autumn Festival 2026: The Reunion Festival of the Separated Of all the festivals on the Chinese calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节, Zhōngqiū Jié) is the one built around a single…

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BySteven

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Aug 2026

Chinese Genealogy How-To Guides

How to Read a Chinese Zupu: The 10 Parts, Explained Simply

How to Read a Chinese Zupu: A Diaspora Descendant's Guide The Book That Was Written for You Every few years, someone inherits a book they cannot read. Thread-bound, paper soft…

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Ghost Month 2026: A Guide to Zhongyuan for Diaspora Families

Ghost Month 2026: A Guide to Zhongyuan for Diaspora Families The Gates Open: A Month When the Living Remember In Chinese cosmology, the seventh month of the lunar calendar belongs…

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BySteven

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Aug 2026

Practical Guide Roots Travel

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…

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Qixi Festival: How the Wuyi Diaspora Kept Love Alive Across the Ocean

Qixi Festival: How the Wuyi Diaspora Kept Love Alive Across the Ocean The Seventh Night: When the Separated Are Allowed to Meet The seventh night of the seventh lunar month…

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Zhongyuan Festival: How the Wuyi Diaspora Honors the Dead

Zhongyuan Festival: How the Wuyi Diaspora Honors the Dead The Month of the Dead — and the People Who Never Stopped Feeding Them In the Chinese calendar, the seventh lunar…

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BySteven

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Aug 2026

Practical Guide Roots Travel

Wuyi Roots Trip Itinerary: A 10-Day Plan for Descendants

Wuyi Roots Trip Itinerary: A 10-Day Plan for Descendants \nThe Wuyi region of Guangdong sent over two million people overseas between 1840 and 1940 \— and every year, thousands of…

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Aug 2026

Labor Migration Migration History

Coolie Trade Ships and the Americas: Cuba, Peru, Jamaica

Coolie Trade Ships and the Americas: Cuba, Peru, Jamaica The Crossing Between 1847 and 1874, roughly a quarter of a million men from the Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì) counties of Guangdong…

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Aug 2026

Diaspora Stories Pan-Chinese

Fujian and Chaozhou: The Other Chinese Diaspora

"Fujian and Chaozhou: The Other Chinese Diaspora The Chinese diaspora did not come from one region. If you have followed the story of the Wuyi (五邑, wǔyì) — the five…

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Jul 2026

Practical Guide Roots Travel

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 \\—…

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Mid-Autumn Festival 2026: Mooncakes, Reunion, and How the Wuyi Diaspora Keeps the Date

How to Read a Chinese Zupu: The 10 Parts, Explained Simply

Ghost Month 2026: A Guide to Zhongyuan for Diaspora Families

Getting Around Wuyi: Trains, Buses, and Hiring a Driver for Your Roots Trip

Qixi Festival: How the Wuyi Diaspora Kept Love Alive Across the Ocean

Zhongyuan Festival: How the Wuyi Diaspora Honors the Dead

Wuyi Roots Trip Itinerary: A 10-Day Plan for Descendants

Coolie Trade Ships and the Americas: Cuba, Peru, Jamaica

Fujian and Chaozhou: The Other Chinese Diaspora

Budgeting Your Wuyi Roots Trip: What It Actually Costs

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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