Duanfen, Taishan: The Emigrant Town That Built a School
In the first decade of the twentieth century, when most of the able-bodied men of inland Taishan were already leaving for the Americas, one township put the money they sent home into classrooms before it put it into anything else. The town was Duanfen (端芬镇, Duānfēn…
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 two: a town of the staying and a town of the leaving, so evenly split that local people describe the place as 两个冲蒌 (liǎng gè…