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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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The Guo (郭) Surname: From Zhou Dynasty Nobility to the Wuyi Diaspora

The Guo (郭) Surname: From Zhou Dynasty Nobility to the Wuyi Diaspora The Guo (郭) surname carries one of the longest continuously documented lineages in Chinese history — three thousand years from the Zhou dynasty’s founding brothers to the diaspora communities of the Wuyi (四邑) region (trace your own surname origins with our Surname Compass).…
July 28, 20260Comments

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A historic Taishanese mansion reflecting in a pond at sunset in Zili Village, Kaiping — part of the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages UNESCO World Heritage Site, built with funds sent through the qiaopi remittance system.
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What Is Qiaopi? A Beginner’s Guide to Chinese Remittance Letters

Between 1850 and 1950, millions of Chinese emigrants sent home letters unlike any correspondence in human history. Each one was simultaneously a love letter, a bank transfer, a household budget, and a legal document — all folded into a single piece of paper. These were qiaopi (侨批, qiáopī), the "overseas Chinese correspondence-remittances" that sustained an…
July 22, 20260Comments

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