Ep. 194 | The History of Toi San and US Immigration

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Laszlo looks at U.S. Immigration during the bad old days of Chinese Exclusion. The subject will be examined through the telling of the stories of three rather plain and non-extraordinary brothers from Haiyang Village in Toi San (Taishan in Mandarin). These three Moy brothers were featured in Scott Seligman's 2013 book "Three Tough Chinamen" (Earnshaw Books). In addition to the Chinese Exclusion laws, Laszlo briefly introduces the life of another Toisanese, Ng Poon Chew.

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0:50.0	Hello everyone all over this wonderful world,
0:52.0	Lhasa Montgomery here once again with another humble offering from the
0:56.5	CHP. This episode was first produced in early 2018 and ran for a few years.
1:03.0	It was one of my most popular videos on my YouTube channel.
1:06.0	And since uploading this one, I received so many nice comments and emails from
1:12.0	Hoi Sanis's around the world.
1:14.8	A couple inaccuracies were kindly and generously pointed out to me by some of my listeners,
1:21.2	one of which concerned my pronunciation of the word toy-e-san. of my
1:25.0	poorly listeners, toy-san is my poorly pronounced Cantonese of the Mandarin Taishan.
1:31.0	The Toy-San people in their dialect used an H instead of a T and called themselves in their ancestral
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