Winners, Losers, Swimmers and Players
…from Weaverville, in the Taishan district of Canton. Will we finally get to meet a direct descendant of “our” Louies and fill in some of the mysterious details of what… Continue Reading
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Searches and Seizures
…1920 and clawing his way back to this fly-specked corner of Taishan Disrict, Louie Chow proved himself a “winner” by Chinese lights, as Trinity patriarch Moon Lee would later explain… Continue Reading
Homing In on Trinity’s Huaqiao
…Taishan City’s main downtown park. None of the huaqiao (Overseas Chinese) vacationers at the surrounding tables show any sign of budging, as swarming Taishanese waiters bring on course after course…. Continue Reading
Descent from ‘Gold Mountain’
…emigrants even to this day. Taishan dialect remains supreme in U.S. Chinatowns, although its dominance is now challenged by newcomers from coastal Fujian and elsewhere. Still, Taishan thinks of itself… Continue Reading
Annals of Oriental Exclusion
…credible rendering of the Cantonese phrase for “bon voyage.” Next installment: Up the Creek in Taishan. Click here to see all articles in this series. Lincoln Kaye is a forest… Continue Reading
Joss House: ‘To Get Rich Is Glorious’
…soon as they head back to their native Taishan district of Canton. Finding ourselves Hongkong-bound a couple of Chinese New Years ago, my wife, Mei-lang, and I wondered if we… Continue Reading
