{"id":1297,"date":"2021-03-31T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:01:49","slug":"chinese-mauritian-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2021\/03\/31\/chinese-mauritian-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mauritian Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently received a YouTube video from one of my uncles on the topic of the migration of Hakka (\u5ba2\u5bb6) Chinese from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/q5gxJGwrRBjx5ESa6\" target=\"_blank\">Mexian, China<\/a> to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/jowNpjZ47vcfhrer6\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritius<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My maternal heritage is from Mauritius and I have made <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2017\/05\/20\/a-mauritian-legacy-of-my-grandfather\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous postings<\/a> in this regard. You can simply do a quick search in this blog on the term, Mauritius, and you&#8217;ll see other related postings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For keep sake, I&#8217;ve gathered the videos here for easy reference to share this knowledge with other relatives. It is also pretty amazing what you will find when searching for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=chinese+in+mauritius\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chinese in Mauritius&#8221; on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are four videos which I personally found interesting. The first three videos are from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPV-Feu6mkX6X8zvn38bqaQ\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanette Lan&#8217;s YouTube Channel<\/a>, kudos to her for sharing these videos. They are listed in chronological order of production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"240\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 294 \/ 240;\" width=\"294\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Chinese.In_.Mauritius.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Chinese.In_.Mauritius.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption>Commemoration of the 178th anniversary of the Arrival of Indentured Immigrants to Mauritius (November 2nd, 2012)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"topSeparator\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 480;\" width=\"640\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/From.Mauritius.To_.Mexian.A.Journey.to_.Our_.Roots_.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/From.Mauritius.To_.Mexian.A.Journey.to_.Our_.Roots_.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption>A Journey to Our Roots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"topSeparator\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 480;\" width=\"640\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/From.Mauritius.To_.Mexian.The_.Cradle.of_.Hakka_.Culture.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/From.Mauritius.To_.Mexian.The_.Cradle.of_.Hakka_.Culture.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption>The Cradle of Hakka Culture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"topSeparator\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Hakka-Diaspora-The-Toronto-Hakka-Heritage-Alliance.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Hakka-Diaspora-The-Toronto-Hakka-Heritage-Alliance.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption>Hakka History, Cooking, and Rhymes with the Toronto Hakka Heritage Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a YouTube video from one of my uncles on the topic of the migration of Hakka (\u5ba2\u5bb6) Chinese from Mexian, China to Mauritius. My maternal heritage is from Mauritius and I have made previous postings in this regard. You can simply do a quick search in this blog on the term, Mauritius, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2021\/03\/31\/chinese-mauritian-roots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chinese Mauritian Roots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}