You Have Been Loyal Wah Kiu

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Williams
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pearl River

The huaqiao are often seen as loyal to the Chinese motherland, but for many in the qiaoxiang loyalty had a narrower focus. Despite this, not everyone who moved between the Pearl River Delta and the Pacific Ports in the generations after 1849 had been “loyal wah kiu” (huaqiao), and it has not been the purpose of this study to argue they were. It has been argued, however, that a concept such as “loyal wah kiu” and the history of the movement of people from the Pearl River Delta over the period are best understood within the context of the qiaoxiang connections. It has also been argued that a nation-state perspective and the conceptions and assumptions that have been characterized as “border-guard views” have failed to understand the significance of the “loyal wah kiu” and the role played by the qiaoxiang links. By interpreting the history of the overseas Chinese, the huaqiao, through the perspective of their places of origin, the qiaoxiang, it is hoped that a successful attempt has been made by this study to improve this understanding.

Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Qiaoxiang

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Williams
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
The Impact

In the history of links between people from the Pearl River Delta with the countries of South-East Asia and the Pacific, the role played by Hong Kong cannot be ignored. It is the purpose here to examine the role and contribution of Hong Kong to these Pearl River Delta links over the period 1842 to 1942. Such an examination, it is hoped, will also allow the impact of Pearl River Delta links on Hong Kong to be investigated. Much of the material presented by this paper is not new, rather the aim is to view Hong Kong from the perspective of the Pearl River Delta qiaoxiang. A perspective, it is suggested, that will enable aspects of Hong Kong's history and its contribution to the history of the Pearl River Delta counties and their overseas links to be seen in a new way.

Foragers, fishers and farmers: origins of the Taiwanese Neolithic

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (342) ◽  
pp. 1115-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiao-chun Hung ◽  
Mike T. Carson
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
Coastal China

The Neolithic of Taiwan represents the first stage in the expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples through the Pacific. Settlement and burial evidence from the Tapenkeng (TKP) or Dabenkeng culture demonstrates the development of the early Taiwanese Neolithic over a period of almost 2000 years, from its origin in the pre-TPK of the Pearl River Delta and south-eastern coastal China. The first TPK communities of Taiwan pursued a mixed coastal foraging and horticultural lifestyle, but by the late TPK rice and millet farming were practised with extensive villages and large settlements. The broad-spectrum subsistence diversity of the Taiwanese Neolithic was an important factor in facilitating the subsequent expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples to the Philippines and beyond.

Design Aesthetics of Transborder Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Max Hirsh
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pearl River

Design Aesthetics of Transborder Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta investigates the development of a “transborder” ferry network that allows passengers in Mainland China to fly through Hong Kong International Airport without going through customs and immigration controls. Located deep inside Guangdong Province, these facilities cater to travelers whose movement across international frontiers is limited by their income or citizenship. Focusing on two of these terminals, Max Hirsh argues that the prevailing emphasis on iconic structures in the architectural history of air travel has overshadowed the emergence of distinctly un-iconic aviation facilities designed to plug less-privileged people and places into broader networks of international air travel. Hirsh locates this infrastructural innovation in the historical context of the region and interrogates its spatial logic and aesthetic composition in an effort to model a new understanding of urban space: one that illuminates an architecture of incipient global mobility that has been inconspicuously inserted into ordinary places and unspectacular structures throughout the Pearl River Delta.

Itinerant Actors and Red Boats in the Pearl River Delta

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing Chung Ng
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Early History ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Rural Market ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
Cantonese Opera ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pearl River

This chapter reconstructs the early history of Cantonese opera, from the theater activities in Ming-Qing Guangdong to opera troupes from various parts of China where major theatrical genres had taken shape. The ensuing process of domestication of such extra-provincial theatrical materials, mingled with local musical sources, gradually nurtured a regional style of theater that has been known for its eclectic quality ever since. By the last third of the nineteenth century, local opera had flourished as an itinerant operation with acting troupes performing on stage in temple courtyards and in makeshift structures at rural market fairs across the estuaries of the Pearl River Delta. This was the legendary “era of the red boat,” named after the flat-bottomed wooden crafts used as means of conveyance and as accommodations by the actors.

Because in the Tang Mountains We Have a Big House

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Williams
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
Intention To Return

This chapter is a comprehensive look at a specific qiaoxiang—the Zhongshan County district of Long Du—to create a case study illustrating the role of the qiaoxiang in the links with the Pacific destinations. Here it is argued that support for and intention to return to the qiaoxiang were the basic motivating factors in the links between the Pearl River Delta qiaoxiang and the Pacific Ports in the years after 1849. The history of the qiaoxiang links is not only a history of movement outside the qiaoxiang but a history of efforts to survive, return to, retire in, and improve the qiaoxiang. The huaqiao’s efforts were aimed at using the wealth and resources they could obtain in the destinations to improve the position of themselves, their families, and possibly their clans and villages, in the qiaoxiang. This was an aim that not all fulfilled but this does not mean it did not exist.

Wading 10,000 Li

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Williams
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Broad Context ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pearl River

This chapter provides an historical overview of the movement of people from the Pearl River Delta as they sought their fortunes around the Pacific for generations over the 19th and 20th centuries. Who were these people who choose to wade “10,000 li”? How many did so and where did they go? As a start in answering these questions the movement as a whole and the position of the Pearl River Delta counties and the three Pacific Ports within it are described. In particular the significance of the establishment of Hong Kong is discussed. A listing of the major characteristics of the movement and a chronology of the qiaoxiang links also helps to provide a background to developments in the qiaoxiang and the reaction of the societies of the Pacific Ports to the movement as a whole. Final return to the qiaoxiang was their intention on setting out, if not always the achievement. This, it is argued, is the broad context within which the qiaoxiang links are best understood.

EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY FACIES AND PALEOENVIRONMENT DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY IN WANQINGSHA AREA OF THE PEARL RIVER DELTA

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Jianhua WANG ◽  
Linglong CAO ◽  
Xiaojing WANG ◽  
Xiaoqiang YANG ◽  
Jie YANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Sedimentary Facies ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River
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