Three years after visiting the home villages of my grandparents, I got my gear together to start digitizing their rekkid collection. Wanna hear some Cantonese folk opera? Of course ya do.
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The area around Kaiping in particular has villages with a unique historical-architectural flavor— something i didn’t know about before going on this trip.
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Zhujixiang (in Chinese, 珠玑古巷, Zhuji Guxiang, “gu” meaning ancient, “xiang” meaning alley) was a village founded by Han Chinese (the dominant ethnic group of China, to which i belong) over 500 years ago as our various family groups left the central provinces of China on their way into the Guangdong region.
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For 12 days in November 2018, I traveled with about 50 other American people of Chinese descent to various places in Guangdong province…
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