Tag: Pearl River Delta
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Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (4/5)
You Come to Shenzhen. Does That Make You a Shenzhener? From Liang Degong to Baishizhou: Migration, Land, and Urban Belonging I. A Place Where She Had Lived for Twenty-Two Years On July 4, 2019, a forty-eight-year-old woman surnamed Li stood in front of the shop she operated in Baishizhou, Shenzhen, and had her photograph taken.…
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Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (3/5)
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…
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Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (2/5)
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…
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Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (1/5)
Salt Fields and Salt-Trading Depots: The Formation of Coastal Society in Ming-Era Xin’an Salt Administration and Local Society in the Kangxi Gazetteer of Xin’an County I. Introduction: Society in the Salt Fields When people discuss Shenzhen’s history today, they usually begin with the modern metropolis that emerged so rapidly after China’s reform and opening up.…