Misplaced Pages

#842157

13-525: Four Counties may refer to: Siyi (Chinese: 四邑, 'Four Counties'), four former counties in the Pearl River Delta, China Heart Four Counties , a British local radio station serving Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire Four Counties Ring , a canal ring in the English counties of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and

26-597: Is Taishanese (Toisanese/Hoisanese). Although Siyi and Cantonese both belong to the Yue branch of Chinese, Cantonese speakers cannot easily understand Siyi dialect. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many people from the Siyi (or Sze Yup as it was then known) emigrated to Hong Kong, Southeast Asia , Australasia , North America and South America. Of the Chinese American population from that time until

39-552: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Siyi One of the early descriptions of the land came from the American missionary, William Speer , who lived there around 1850 and observed: "Towns embowered in bamboo, a species of banyan and other trees meet the eye on every hand. The level portion of the soil is cultivated as only the Chinese know how to do in order to obtain

52-505: Is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically , physiogeographically , philologically , and ecologically , where the term covers several slightly different but related regions. Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French Australasie ) in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia " and differentiated

65-671: The Sze Yup Wui Gun and the Sam Yup Wui Gun . Endowed with only limited arable lands, with much of the terrain either rocky or swampy, Sze Yup was the "pre-eminent sending area" of overseas Chinese. In addition to being a region of major emigration abroad, Sze Yup is a melting pot of ideas and trends brought back by overseas Chinese. For example, many tong lau in Chekham and diaolou in Hoiping and Toishan built in

78-741: The 1950s, Sze Yup accounted for the vast majority, about 80%, along with people from Sanyi (Sam Yup) and Zhongshan (Chung Shan) . In America, people from Sze Yup generally worked as laborers; Sam Yup people worked as entrepreneurs; and Chung Shan people specialized in agriculture. The Punti–Hakka Clan Wars also erupted in the Sze Yup counties just prior to this time period of emigration. In 1851, two Wui Gun ( huiguan ; traditional Chinese : 會館 ; simplified Chinese : 会馆 ; pinyin : huìguǎn ; Jyutping : wui gun ) (native place associations) were established in San Francisco :

91-525: The Siyi or Wuyi region of Guangdong Province, making the region famous for producing more entertainment stars than any other region in mainland China. As a result, the local government in Jiangmen which administers the Siyi or Wuyi cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Enping, Xinhui and Heshan, decided to build a Stars Park called Jiangmen Star Park . The area gave rise to the Siyi dialects , the most prominent of which

104-585: The West Midlands See also [ edit ] Four Countries Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Four Counties . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Counties&oldid=891197858 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

117-568: The area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific ( Magellanica ). In the late 19th century, the term Australasia was used in reference to the "Australasian colonies". In this sense it related specifically to the British colonies south of Asia: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria (i.e., the Australian colonies) and New Zealand. Australasia found continued geopolitical attention in

130-685: The early 20th century incorporate architectural features from both China and the West. Notable people: Mark Twain references the See Yup Company, and the Ning Yeong Company, in Roughing It . Australasia Australasia is a subregion of Oceania , comprising Australia , New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia ), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia ). The term

143-419: The early 20th century. Historian Hansong Li finds that against the backdrop of British colonialism, German geopoliticians considered "Australasia" as a counterweight to the former German South Sea Edge (Südseerand), both of which form the "Indo-Pacific" region. The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary gives two meanings of "Australasia". One, especially in Australian use, is "Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea , and

SECTION 10

#1732780654843

156-402: The five former counties of Xinhui, Taishan , Kaiping and Enping as well as Heshan , all administered by Jiangmen, has become an official title and is widely accepted by the local residents today. However, among overseas Chinese, the name Siyi is still popular and frequently used as Heshan County was established much later than the other four. It is said that over 100 famous people come from

169-411: The utmost possible returns from Nature. The view appears like a great garden bounded by ranges of hills." Xinhui is a city district and the other three are county-level cities, all four belong to Jiangmen Prefecture administered from the city of Jiangmen . An alternative term, Wuyi ( Chinese : 五 邑 ; pinyin : Wǔyì , Cantonese : Ng5 Yap1 ; 'five counties'), which refers to

#842157