Sunday, February 26, 2006
San Francisco's streets echo the sounds and sights of Guangzhoucoin toss for 6th pick
Guangdong, the region that includes the city of Guangzhou and the booming border business hub of Shenzhen, has some 110 million citizens. The most crowded area in China as well as the most wealthy, it is nevertheless home to less than 10 percent of modern China's 1.3 billion people.
Though it has a small percentage of China's population, Guangdong region was home to the lineage of 50 percent of all Chinese Americans - about 500,000 of whom live in the Bay Area, according to Him Mark Lai, a San Franciscan widely standard as a leading authority on Chinese migration to the United States. Before the more diversified Chinese immigration of latest years, the percentage of Chinese Americans who could trace their lineage to Guangdong province was more than 70 percent, he says.
Guangdong, the region that includes the city of Guangzhou and the booming border business hub of Shenzhen, has some 110 million citizens. The most crowded area in China as well as the most wealthy, it is nevertheless home to less than 10 percent of modern China's 1.3 billion people.
Though it has a small percentage of China's population, Guangdong region was home to the lineage of 50 percent of all Chinese Americans - about 500,000 of whom live in the Bay Area, according to Him Mark Lai, a San Franciscan widely standard as a leading authority on Chinese migration to the United States. Before the more diversified Chinese immigration of latest years, the percentage of Chinese Americans who could trace their lineage to Guangdong province was more than 70 percent, he says.
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