History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba (Inside A Chinese Clan) PCHC MoM (Fong Leun Tong)
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- History of Chinese People In Cuba. There were over 150,000 Chinese who immigrated to Cuba in 1800"s who worked in the plantations and later in building the railroads. Later on, they settled in Cuba and became part of Cuban society. The second part of this video shows documents and artifacts belonging this clan. The third part of the video shows the small room upstairs where workers stayed and lived.
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HISTORY OF CHINESE PEOPLE IN CUBA
The Chinese who immigrated to Cuba in the 20th century were mostly merchants and businessmen. Today, there are less than 200 ethnic Chinese in Cuba.
Over 90% of the Chinese who had immigrated to Cuba were from were from "Sai Yup", the Four Counties of Canton, now Guangdong province in southern China. The Sai Yup, Four Counties, were known as Toisan, Hoiping, Yinping and Sunwui. They all share the common Sai Yup dialect. Toisan and Hoiping are the most similar, with some small differences in pronunciation and phrases. The Four Counties, Siyi, is known in Mandarin as Taishan, Kaiping, Enping and Sunhui.
There are 3 parts in this video. A guest speak, Professor Louie Kin Sheun, talks about his father and grandfather working in Cuba. In 2010, Professor Louie visited Cuba for the first time. Later he began recording the oral histories of the Chinese in Cuba. HIs book, titled "So Far Away In Cuba" was published in 2015. This guest speaker was arranged by Winnie Cheung, Presidient of PCHC MoM. The event was held at the Ing Clan Building, located just outside of Vancouver's chinatown. The event was organized by Winnie Cheung of PCHC- MoM.
Since this event was held in the Ing Clan Building, I got a chance to check out some documents and papers on the second floor. These artifacts were part of an exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver.
Part 3 of the video is at the attic of the I|ng Clan Building. This attic used to a bedroom for over 20 Chinese workers living in the Ing Clan Building. The room is only about 300 square feet. The Chinese workers paid about 1.75 a month during the 1920's.
All in all, it was a great event and the attendees got a chance to view the physical layout of a Chinese clan building and get a glimpse of the inner workings of a Chinese clan that is over 100 years old.
Our Chinese clan is called the Fong Leun Tong. It consists of members with the last name of Sit and Seto.
I'm glad I came across your channel. My grandfather's brother emigrated to Cuba. He married a Cuban woman, but they never had any children. So it was nice to watch this video . Thanks.
Thanks for checking out my video. It would be an interesting place to live. At one time it was a bit like Vegas, so I'm told.
Thanks for sharing, this part of Chinese in Cuba is not really known.
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Fascinating!
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I can understand his Cantonese easily ... even though my grandfather was from Soon Tuck 顺德 district of Guangdong province. WOW ... thank you. Buenisimo ... un saludo desde Malasia.
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You're very welcome. Great to hear that you can understand the language. Thanks for viewing my video on History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba.
Thanks for adding to my knowledge of the family name
Great to hear you are a Seto. Thanks for checking out my video on History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba.
My father and grandpa was also from Cuba. Where can I find this book he wrote?
I checked around but I couldn't find where to buy the book, "So Far Away In Cuba". by Professor Louie Kin Sheun. Great to hear your father and grandpa were from Cuba. I'm always interested hear stories from there. Thanks for viewing my video on History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba.
This was so interesting Dan. My great grandfather was a Szeto as well. And he like the many Chinese immigrated to Cuba in the late 1800s, and my grandpa never got to meet him. He wrote letters back home but the letters eventually stopped, and he never returned home as well. Thank you for sharing this video with us Dan !
Glad to hear your great grandfather's roots as a Szeto/ Seto. However, sad to hear about your grandpa's life circumstance. Thanks for viewing my video on History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba.
I know that it is weird to be asking this… but could you tell me his name? My great grandfather was named in cuba as T Untán because back in those days name registration was no good so I don’t really know what his original name and surname was, and he stopped sending letters to his family because he lost his ability to write cantonese and the only friend he had who helped him write the letters died at a young age. My generation of great grandchildren we still have 30% cantonese DNA but we know nothing about our origins 😢 We wish to go to china with my grandmother to let her meet her uncles and the rest of the family if still alive someday. ❤ sorry for telling all these and thank you for reading it 🫶
This is so amazing, not many people knew this but most of the first immigrants to America and the Caribbean were from the the 4 counties including my grandfather, he came from Yinping to Venezuela in the 50’s then he brought my father from HK and i was born as a first generation Chinese in Venezuela, i still speak the Yinping dialect which is amazing
Great to hear you can speak the Yinping dialect. Do you you have a chinatown or large population of 4 counties immigrants in your area?
I'll be doing some online lessons in the future on the 4 counties dilalect. Stay tuned because I'm interested in the differences in pronunciation and word usage of the 4 counties.
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All humans are social by nature, there was a significant 4 counties colony in Venezuela 15 years ago, about 20 years ago we had a large influx of Chinese inmigrant from other areas, my guess it was probably Fujian, i emigrated to the USA about 15 years ago and i believe that some of the chinese has left because of the social and economic situation in Venezuela
And yes there was something call chinatown where we used to gather mainly on the weekends after working half day in our business to enjoy DimSum, shop for Chinese groceries and gossip as usual
Dan I always enjoy watching your videos and learning about my ancestors and history.
Thanks for sharing and please make more videos.
Thanks very much for supporting my channel. For, sure, I will have more videos about ancestry and history. Thanks for checking out this video on History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba.
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This was very interesting for me because I had no idea that Chinese people immigrated to Cuba. China as well as Cuba was always a mystery to me, never to be probed because one wouldn't discover anything!!
I became interested in Cuba because the guy that bought my grandfather's restaurant was from Cuba. I was lucky to visit Cuba about 15 years ago. Thanks for checking out my channel and thanks for viewing this video on History Of Cantonese Chinese In Cuba.
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It makes sense that not many Chinese are left in Cuba. It's not a wealthy country by any means.
Cuba used to be a gambling center like Vegas with a lot of American visitors. A lot of Chinese moved there and ran businesses. 1969 was the last year for them to leave. But they weren't allowed to take their money with them. If they had friends and families outside of Cuba, they would send them the money and move out of Cuba. The ones without overseas contacts, either moved out of Cuba without their money or stayed behind in Cuba. Thanks for checking out my video.
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That guy needs a haircut. Needs a haircut bad.
That's the new style. Thanks for checking pout my video.