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Crowds and red paper lanterns fill a street during a lunar new year celebration in Lima's Barrio Chino
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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 all of them young men — were carried across the Pacific to Peru under eight-year contracts they signed in a language they could not read.…
September 1, 20260Comments

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Enping: Meaning, Origin, and the Forgotten Corner of the Wuyi Diaspora

Between 1840 and 1940, over two million people left the five counties of the Wuyi (\五\邑) region in southern Guangdong \— one of the largest sustained regional migrations in modern history. Taishan (\台\山) sent its sons to build the transcontinental railroad and fill San Francisco's Chinatown. Kaiping (\开\平) raised diaolou towers with Canadian gold and…
July 30, 20260Comments

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