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The Peng (彭) Surname: A Top-31 Name, Scattered Thin at the Edge of the Wuyi Diaspora

The Peng (彭) Surname: A Top-31 Name, Scattered Thin at the Edge of the Wuyi Diaspora The Peng surname (彭, Péng) ranks about thirty-first among China's surnames, with roughly 6.9 million bearers — about 0.49 percent of the Han population — according to the cited surname study, Wu Jianhua's Peng Surname History (Peng Xing Shihua),…

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The entrance doorway of the Situ Clan Library (司徒氏图书馆) in Chikan, Kaiping — the door of the library the overseas clan raised 40,000 silver dollars to build.

The Situ (司徒) Surname: From a Zhou Court Office to the Wuyi Diaspora

The Situ (司徒) Surname: From a Zhou Court Office to the Wuyi Diaspora A Name That Was Once an Office The Situ (司徒, Sītú) surname is one of the few office-derived compound surnames (官职姓, guānzhíxìng) to survive from Chinese antiquity — it began as the Zhou-dynasty office of Minister of Lands and Education (地官大司徒, dìguān…

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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.

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"…

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