Szeyap

English Etymology From en yue 四邑 sei3 jap1. Proper noun en Siyi. en March 27, 1926 News from South China The China Weekly Review https://archive.org/details/millards-1926.03.27/ Shanghai XXXVI 4 52770868 98 https://archive.org/details/millards-1926.03.27/page/98/ The Sunning Railroad, connecting Peikai and Towshan, by way of Kongmoon and inland tawns of Szeyap districts, had to suspend operation again on March 12, because of lack of coal, for the import of which by way of Hongkong is still being interfered with by pickets of the Canton Strike Committee enforcing the “anti-imperialist” boycott. en 1985 Grace Pung Guthrie A School Divided: An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 0898595762 https://archive.org/details/schooldividedeth0000guth 33 https://archive.org/details/schooldividedeth0000guth/page/33/ These sojourners were quite a homogeneous group in language, culture, family, and socioeconomic status. Practically all of them were peasants from the arid Szeyap (i.e., "four districts") area southwest of Canton, the capital city of the province of Kwangtung. en 2016 Amy Lively CHINESE IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA Jonathan H. X. Lee Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People https://archive.org/details/chineseamericans0000unse_h6z4/ w:ABC-CLIO 978-1-61069-549-7 2015035598 900016693 68 https://archive.org/details/chineseamericans0000unse_h6z4/page/68/ Chinese immigrants, many of them from the Szeyap region of southern China, were actively recruited to take the place of slave labor. By 1880, just over 50 Chinese immigrants were living in Mississippi. However, the Chinese quickly learned that there was little money to be made as plantation workers and many turned to owning and operating grocery stores as a means of financial survival.