Hoisan

English Etymology From en zhx-tai - 臺山 hoi3 san1. Proper noun en Taishan. en https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-hearings-prints-and-reports_january-27-june-9-1958_6/page/n1121 1958 Certain Aliens 40–41 https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-hearings-prints-and-reports_january-27-june-9-1958_6/page/n1161/ Mr. Dempsey stressed the fact that the beneficiaries will be well provided for financially if they are permitted to remain in the United States, and that the beneficiaries are fearful of returning to China because their husband-father was killed by the Communists in Hoisan in 1951. en 2014 Genevieve Leung Hoisan-wa in jest: Humor, laughter, and the construction of counter-hegemonic affect in contemporary Chinese American language maintenance Humor 27 2 213 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216981242.pdf ML’s response to WL, that Hoisan people are like “soul people,” or people who are connected with soul music, ties back to his original point about passion and life: not only are Hoisan people connected to soul people from a musical perspective, to have “soul” also refers to having emotional energy or intensity, something ML had previously stated is a positive attribute of Hoisan-wa. https://web.archive.org/web/20250121165349/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216981242.pdf 21 January 2025 en 2017 Henry Yu; Stephanie Chan The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks and Mobility Across Space and Time Lloyd L. Wong Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada https://books.google.com/books?id=594lDgAAQBAJ 978-0-7748-3379-0 960097229 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=594lDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 Like other familial networks that spanned the Cantonese Pacific during the nineteenth and twentieth century, that of the Mahs from Hoisan consisted of discrete sets of interconnected migrations that originated in a small number of villages in a small number of villages in a few counties, dispersing in a recurring pattern over many generations to multiple destinations across a vast space. Derived terms en Hoisanese Further reading