Meaning of Hoisan | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of Taishan.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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