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It is said that over 100 famous people come from the Siyi or Wuyi region of Guangdong Province, making the region famous for producing more entertainment stars than any other region in mainland China. As a result, the local government in Jiangmen which administers the Siyi or Wuyi cities of Taishan,
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Language in the USA – Page 217 Charles A. Ferguson, Shirley Brice Heath, David Hwang – 1981 "Even the kind of Cantonese which the Chinese Americans speak causes difficulties, because most of them have come from the rural Seiyap districts southwest of Canton and speak dialects of that region rather
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Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition – Page 118 Emma Woo Louie – 2008 "These were the Sam Yup and Sze Yup dialects, which the author spelled as “Saam Yup” and “Sz Yip,” respectively. Sam Yup means “Three Districts dialect,” which is akin to standard Cantonese, and Sze Yup means “Four
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Phonology of Cantonese – Page 192 Oi-kan Yue Hashimoto – 1972 "... affricates and aspirated stops into consonant clusters is for external comparative purposes, because the Cantonese aspirated stops correspond to /h/ and some of the Cantonese affricates correspond to stops in many Si-yi (Seiyap)
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Shanghai Girls – Page 8 Lisa See – 2010 "My first language was Sze Yup, the dialect spoken in the Four Districts in Kwangtung province, where our ancestral home is located...”
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In America, people from Sze Yup generally worked as laborers; Sam Yup people worked as entrepreneurs; and Chung Shan people specialized in agriculture. The
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In addition to being a region of major emigration abroad, Sze Yup is a melting pot of ideas and trends brought back by overseas Chinese. For example, many
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In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many people from the Siyi (or Sze Yup as it was then known) emigrated to Hong Kong,
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population from that time until the 1950s, Sze Yup accounted for the vast majority, about 80%, along with people from
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Hsia, Lisa (2007). "Asians and Asian Americans in the West". In Mancall, Peter; Johnson, Benjamin Heber (eds.).
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built in the early 20th century incorporate architectural features from both China and the West.
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also erupted in the Sze Yup counties just prior to this time period of emigration. In 1851, two
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is a city district and the other three are county-level cities, all four belong to
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One of the early descriptions of the land came from the American missionary,
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Kaiping, Enping, Xinhui and Heshan, decided to build a Stars Park called
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of Chinese, Cantonese speakers cannot easily understand Siyi dialect.
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references the See Yup Company, and the Ning Yeong Company, in
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The oldest and the newest empire: China and the United States
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Making of the American West: People and Perspectives
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Index

Five Counties in Guangdong
Siyi (disambiguation)

Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
IPA

Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
other Yue
Taishanese
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Cantonese
Chinese
pinyin
Jyutping
Xinhui
Taishan
Kaiping
Enping
Pearl River Delta
Guangdong Province

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