Author: MyChinaRoots

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(Originally published in the blog of My China Roots).  [English] From 1757 until 1842, Guangzhou, or Canton as it was called back then, was China’s only official door to the outside world. With the aim to control China’s foreign trade, the ‘Canton System’ meant that all imports...


(Originally published in the blog of My China Roots).  [English] Who would have thought that the preservation of the ever so civilized ‘tea time’ would drive the British to instigate nationwide drug addiction and a ‘century of humiliation’ in China? By the 18th century, Britain was drinking so...



(originally published in http://www.mychinaroots.com/portfolio-items/hungry-ghost-festival-and-the-cross-cultural-nature-of-roots/ [English] Ghosts come in all shapes and sizes, especially Chinese ones. There are water ghosts, headless ghosts, friendly old lady-ghosts, and, as pictured here, hungry ghosts. Like all hungry ghosts, you can recognize him by his needle-thin neck, which hardly allows any food to...



(originally published in http://www.mychinaroots.com/portfolio-items/singapore-bing-hans-migration-trip-2/ ) [English] Every wave rams Bing Han’s homesickness deeper into his belly. The boat moves in every direction, except the one back home. Arriving on the busy docks of Singapore, Bing Han is relieved to find Tik Tjoe. Surrounded by strange-looking people talking strange-sounding...


(originally published in http://www.mychinaroots.com/portfolio-items/zhangzhou-fujian-bing-hans-migration-trip-1/ ) [English] How did your ancestors make their migration journey? How does one travel to a new beginning? The story below follows a typical Chinese emigrant on his way to Semarang, some 100 years ago. It is 1912, the first year of the Republic...


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