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Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Platform, Updated: What the Greater Bay Area Offers Returning Families

Most places that lose their people to emigration never build institutions to bring them back. Jiangmen did — and what it built is not a slogan but a paper chain with dates. A clause in Chapter 8 of the 2019 Greater Bay Area development plan supports building an overseas-Chinese cultural-exchange-and-cooperation important platform (华侨华人文化交流合作重要平台, Huáqiáo Huárén…
September 24, 20260Comments

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Chinese Surnames Surname Archive

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),…
September 10, 20260Comments

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Chinese residents of San Francisco's Old Chinatown, photographed by Arnold Genthe around 1900–1906 — the community that built the hand laundry trade
Chinese Diaspora migration-history

The Chinese Hand Laundry: How Wuyi Immigrants Built an American Icon (1850s–1940s)

The Chinese Hand Laundry: How Wuyi Immigrants Built an American Icon (1850s–1940s) The Signature Trade of Chinese America Of all the occupations that shaped Chinese America, none was more widespread — or more misunderstood — than the Chinese hand laundry (洗衣业, xǐyī yè). For a century it was the country's most iconic Chinese trade: born…
August 21, 20260Comments

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