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An open Chinese clan genealogy book from the World Digital Library collection, representing the centuries-old tradition of recording every male birth, marriage, and migration across generations — the foundation of diaspora roots research.
Chinese Surnames Surname Archive

The Zhao (赵) Surname: 3,100 Years from Imperial China to the Wuyi Diaspora

Every Chinese person who has ever learned to read has memorized the same four characters: 赵钱孙李 — Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li. These are the opening words of the Hundred Family Surnames (百家姓, Bǎijiāxìng), the most famous roster of Chinese names in history, compiled during the Song Dynasty (宋朝, Sòng Cháo, 960-1279 CE). For a millennium,…
July 14, 20260Comments

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Historic Kaiping diaolou watchtower in Zili Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site built by returning overseas Chinese in the early 20th century
Practical Guide Roots Trip Planning Wuyi Heritage

Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There

Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There The Five Counties (五邑, Wǔyì) of Wuyi — Taishan (台山), Kaiping (开平), Xinhui (新会), Enping (恩平), and Heshan (鹤山) — sent over two million people overseas between 1840 and 1940, creating one of the largest sustained migrations in modern history. Today, an estimated 1.3 million…
July 13, 20260Comments

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Contemporary Huang clan members participating in ancestral veneration ceremonies at a restored ancestral hall in Taishan, part of the ongoing roots-searching tourism movement reconnecting diaspora descendants with their villages of origin
Chinese Surnames Surname Archive

The Huang Surname: Four Thousand Years from Ancient Kingdom to America’s Largest Chinese Clan

For four thousand years, the character 黄 (Huáng) has traveled across the Chinese-speaking world — carved into ancestral tablets in Henan, inked onto qiaopi letters bound for Gold Mountain (金山, Jīnshān), engraved on association plaques in San Francisco, and typed into DNA test profiles by descendants who have never spoken a word of Taishanese. The…
July 1, 20262Comments

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diaspora Labor Migration Southeast Asia Women's History

The Women Who Refused Marriage: Amahs, Sworn Spinsters, and the Wuyi Domestic Workers Who Built Lives Across the South China Sea

The Woman at the Pier n nIn 1934, a fourteen-year-old girl stepped off a coastal steamer at Singapore's Clifford Pier. The humidity wrapped around her like a wet cloth. The harbor smelled of salt, diesel, and copra — nothing like the mulberry groves and fish ponds of home. She wore the simple cotton clothes of…
June 15, 20260Comments

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