Hak Chng

Wisdom seeker. PhD cand. in Modern Chinese Business History (@NUSingapore). Education boards. @GoogleMaps L8.
Loves: Culture,Language,Music,Data. Tweets mine.

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This is really quite remarkable. The Tsai family from Taiwan returned to Jinjiang in #Quanzhou and found that, despite a 400-year separation, the family genealogies crafted on both sides of the #Taiwan Strait are identical! https://t.co/BKdKCKGTHJ

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@Fosun_Intl invests in #Quanzhou.

https://t.co/9KAXxwdEYd

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Trying a new language app called ⁦@AirlearnApp⁩. Will assess in a few weeks. It helps with reading though, which is useful for historians.

https://t.co/r4WB68s7Fd

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OK this was news to me. This article says that Quanzhou’s water supply to Kinmen surpassed 50 million tons since the project began in 2018.
#Quanzhou #Taiwan #Hokkien
https://t.co/JACWxitwCy

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… the mini-exhibition included dresses and menswear with designs drawn from different ethnic groups across Thailand, including inspiration from Isan, the northern tribes, the South, Malay, and Chinese cuts. It was a show loaded with layers of meaning!
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What treat to have a selection from the exquisite collection of the @QSMTBangkok on display at the Thai Embassy!
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Besides the royal dresses worn by the late Queen Sirikit on royal delegations overseas, in what some might call sartorial diplomacy, …
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Quanzhou Archives collaboration with the Licheng District Archives to exhibit #qiaopi (remittance letters). #DearYou #Quanzhou #overseaschinese

https://t.co/5z6ln1P4vo

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Launch of another vocational university in #Quanzhou.

https://t.co/sGqSrvlT0Q

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@hirako13 Next time then!

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Visit by overseas Chinese youths from the US, Canada, the UK, Spain, and Australia to #Quanzhou, held at Quanzhou Marine Vocational College
https://t.co/dlCnBcIUcy

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Quanzhou Jinjiang nanyin was featured at the China-ASEAN meeting in Jakarta on 25 Jun 2026. #Quanzhou #diaspora #maritime #SEAlinks
https://t.co/1TKT1GoCFD

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A unique announcement: part of the push for replicating the historical maritime silk road in the digital space. #Quanzhou #business #history

https://t.co/7CpX61K5Ze

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The Association of Returned Scholars in China are calling for source materials related to "homecoming songs" (guo fan ge, 过番歌) for their research.

https://t.co/11hzrgPn4H

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Positioning #Quanzhou using its maritime silk road history, but also interestingly blending culture and sports.
https://t.co/vylQCTcGsn
#Hokkien #history #diaspora

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For a major sea port like #Quanzhou, it is critical to cater to the modern diversity of seafarers (no longer just seamen but also seawomen). I wonder: what did services for seamen in the past look like?
https://t.co/nHzDsUN3wI

#Hokkien #diaspora #history

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An article promoting the historical value of visiting the Hokkien regions of Zhangzhou, Xiamen, and Quanzhou. https://t.co/zpQRwex96H

#diaspora #history #Hokkiens

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