The Women Who Built Gold Mountain: Jinshanpo Wives and the Hidden Architecture of Qiaoxiang
By RootsWeb Newsroom | June 10, 2026
1. A Face in the Dust
The year is sometime in the late 1940s, and the village lies in Taishan (台山, Táishān), in the rocky southwestern corner of Guangdong's Pearl River Delta. A woman…
A tower stands alone in a rice paddy near a river called Baisha. Its reinforced concrete walls face west — toward America. It was built with money sent from a laundry in San Francisco by a man — call him Zhang — who left his village in 1902. He never saw the tower finished. He…