Searching for my Hakka Roots
The Salt Merchant’s granddaughter from China to America and the search for my Hakka roots. My unexpected, surprising discoveries of my own family’s more than 100 years old clan books (zhu pu) in old Chinese (printed copy), covering 18 centuries back to the Ming Dynasty (1454) in Fujian and hidden stories and over 2000 long-lost relatives.
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