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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.
Chinese Surnames Surname Archive

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…
August 31, 20260Comments

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Yunhuan Lou and Qiuanjulu Mansion in Zili Diaolou Village, Tangkou Township, Kaiping — the destination at the end of the last-mile road.
Labor Migration Wuyi Diaspora

Chinese Railroad Workers: The Wuyi Villages That Built the Transcontinental

Chinese Railroad Workers: The Wuyi Villages That Built the Transcontinental Between 1865 and 1869, approximately 12,000 Chinese workers laid the track that connected America from coast to coast. More than eighty percent came from a cluster of four counties in Guangdong province — an area smaller than Connecticut. Their wages built diaolou towers, their letters…
July 23, 20260Comments

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