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Migration and Native Place: Qiaokan and the Imagined Community of Taishan County, Guangdong, 1893–1993

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Madeline Y. Hsu
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An the spring of 1984, officials of Taishan County, Guangdong, erected a statue in the central square of the county seat to commemorate the man whose life represented the highest attainment of ambition, idealism, and patriotism in recent local history. The man so honored was neither a conquering general nor a communist zealot. Taishan's chosen hero was a master of commerce and industry, who overcame the early disadvantages of birth to an impoverished family to become a wealthy and successful businessman, a powerful labor contractor, a railroad engineer, and the owner of a thriving import-export business based in the American city of Seattle. Chen Yixi (1844–1928) was not distinguished by financial success alone, for many other Taishanese men went to America, where, by dint of hard work, determination, and luck, they also became wealthy men.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , May 2000 , pp. 307 - 331
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000

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