Yego’s Chronicles

Tag: Historical Migration

  • Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (3/5)

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    Who Rebuilt Xin’an? The Reopening of the Coast, Hakka Migration, and the Case of Liang Degong I. A Forty-Three-Year-Old Examination Candidate On August 31, 1801—the twenty-third day of the seventh lunar month in the sixth year of the Jiaqing reign—a man from Guangdong named Liang Degong submitted a petition to the office of the Commander…

  • Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (2/5)

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    The Great Clearance and the Reopening of the Coast: A Social Upheaval in Early Qing Xin’an War, Population, and the Reconstruction of Local Society in the Kangxi Gazetteer of Xin’an County I. Introduction: The Disappearance of a County By 1667, the sixth year of the Kangxi reign, the county government compound of Xin’an lay in…