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Shows some Tung Wah Coffin Home historical records that depict the role Hong Kong played in the overseas Chinese community. Yip Hon-ming (Professor, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) says the Home is a transit depot for Chinese labourers who died overseas and reflects the yearning of these labourers to return to their homeland. Travels to North America to locations where these labourers lived and worked and visits the Chinese clan associations there. Explains the objectives of these associations. Describes how overseas Chinese sent money through Hong Kong for construction of fortified towers in Siyi, Guangdong.
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