#Toisan

[sikfankitchen]

Savory Tang Yuan (Chinese Glutinous Rice Balls) for Winter Solstice!

[tinqwei]

my grandma’s village! there's also a watchtower (碉楼) which is so cool

[jayalchung]

Congratulations to my dad, Lloyd Chung for participating in a unique digital storytelling project!

[chineseladybug]

One of my first and beloved comics is called #potsandpans. It’s a story about my grandmother whose leg was amputated from gangrene. So I imagined her with a pan on her stump. I always thought the sound of #toisan #cantonese sounded like pots and pans clanging in a beautiful but unsettling way. I used to love grooming her feet. I would pumice her callouses and clip her toe nails with delight. It was my #lovelanguage. #grandmotherlove #grooming https://www.instagram.com/p/Clkj2R2uVX_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hesitationss]

trans ppl should take inspiration from my mom, she changes her name every couple years just cuz she feels like it. she's done it so many time that she doesn't remember some of them. like she was telling me i was wrong and she's only picked english names twice but at my undergrad convocation she introduced herself to people as monica and my mome was trying to tell me that she never did that T-T you can literally change your name whenever you want who even cares. don't settle . ever. if people use the wrong name just gaslight them like my mom.. people who have known her for 20+ years think they made a mistake too. she also only gave us the anglo pronunciation for her chinese name so other chinese people call her different names too depending on the pronunciation.

[eastgaysian]

Hey are you a HKer? (I’m one, asking out of curiosity)

my dad was born in HK (his family is from toisan). i'm usamerican lol

[abwwia]

Nancy Hom, No More Hiroshima/Nagasakis: Medical Aid for the Hibakushas, 1982, screenprint on paper, sheet: 17 × 14 1⁄4 in. (43.2 × 36.2 cm) image: 10 × 9 in. (25.4 × 22.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores García, 2019.51.53

Nancy Hom was born in Toisan, China and came to the United States when she was five years old. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Pratt Institute in 1971. She moved to San Francisco in 1974. She is an artist, writer, organizer, curator, and arts consultant with over 35 years of experience in the non-profit arts field. Via Artist's website

[wongliutsong]

Not Your China Doll Book Cover Reveal

✨Book Cover Reveal of #NotYourChinaDoll - a new biography about #AnnaMayWong by Katie Gee Salisbury (@kayteesal)✨

I am excited to reveal the cover of an upcoming biography about Anna May Wong written by Katie Gee Salisbury. Some of you may simply know her by her Instagram username @kayteesal.

A backstory of how I connected with Katie: In November 2021, I stumbled upon Katie’s Twitter page while trying to figure out if an Asian woman at a Hollywood party was indeed Anna May Wong. It wasn’t. As I read her Half Caste Woman newsletter blog feverishly, I found out it was Mrs. Quon Tai Lachman. I reached out to her personally. We corresponded & connected over our love for Anna May Wong before meeting in-person in August 2022 - when I shared part of my AMW collection & notes with her. I guess we are kindred spirits in a way. Both in our mid-late 30s, we can trace our ancestry to Toisan, and share a love for film history & Anna May Wong. In December 2022, Katie asked me if I would read an early draft of Not Your China Doll. I jumped at the chance. I read the draft of her book in less than span of 1 week and was completely engrossed in the immersive world of Anna May Wong. Katie interweaves the worlds of AMW so beautifully with words and imagery of life - with its foibles. It’s a wonderful true telling of her life’s story, and debunks many of the myths about AMW. It’s well researched & she received input from people in the AMW community. I can’t wait to read this book in its final version—I only read one draft. I hope you will join me… won’t you? 😉

The book comes out in March 2024, but you can pre-order a copy now here: https://bit.ly/NotYourChinaDoll

Your thoughts on this book cover reveal?

[annamaywong]

Not Your China Doll Book Cover Reveal

✨Book Cover Reveal of #NotYourChinaDoll - a new biography about #AnnaMayWong by Katie Gee Salisbury (@kayteesal)✨

I am excited to reveal the cover of an upcoming biography about Anna May Wong written by Katie Gee Salisbury. Some of you may simply know her by her Instagram username @kayteesal.

A backstory of how I connected with Katie: In November 2021, I stumbled upon Katie’s Twitter page while trying to figure out if an Asian woman at a Hollywood party was indeed Anna May Wong. It wasn’t. As I read her Half Caste Woman newsletter blog feverishly, I found out it was Mrs. Quon Tai Lachman. I reached out to her personally. We corresponded & connected over our love for Anna May Wong before meeting in-person in August 2022 - when I shared part of my AMW collection & notes with her. I guess we are kindred spirits in a way. Both in our mid-late 30s, we can trace our ancestry to Toisan, and share a love for film history & Anna May Wong. In December 2022, Katie asked me if I would read an early draft of Not Your China Doll. I jumped at the chance. I read the draft of her book in less than span of 1 week and was completely engrossed in the immersive world of Anna May Wong. Katie interweaves the worlds of AMW so beautifully with words and imagery of life - with its foibles. It’s a wonderful true telling of her life’s story, and debunks many of the myths about AMW. It’s well researched & she received input from people in the AMW community. I can’t wait to read this book in its final version—I only read one draft. I hope you will join me… won’t you? 😉

The book comes out in March 2024, but you can pre-order a copy now here: https://bit.ly/NotYourChinaDoll

Your thoughts on this book cover reveal?

[sanyiang]

I HAVE OBTAINED PRONOUNCIATIONS

Mostly I was concerned about the presence of lh in my family's toisan, because in the limited amount I've heard, I don't recall hearing lh. And it's distinctive!

But sure enough, got my aunt to count to 10 and there is was, right on 3 and 4. The sexy sexy lh

Plus confirmation that 2 is ngi and not ngei. That one I have heard a lot, but nice to be sure

Tomorrow I take my flashcards to school so I can work on making some language help

[tinqwei]

esther eng- openly lesbian filmmaker!!

i just found out about esther eng (伍錦霞) the first chinese female filmmaker to make chinese language films in the us and hong kong.

her love for films started from watching cantonese operas!! she made many films in her lifetime, its such a shame most of the films she made are now lost films, except for two films: golden gate girls and murder in new york chinatown.

she was a butch lesbian and there was no controversy around that because in cantonese opera its normal for actors and actresses to crossdress. another fact that made me smile so much is that her grandparents came from toisan (台山)!!! literally punching the air rn bc im from toisan, i speak cantonese and im also a lesbian i am literally so happy.

i also loved how people called her by the nickname "霞哥" ("ha brother" in english)

i literally cannot express how much finding out about esther eng made my day

also if your interested this is the article i read

[chineseladybug]

Part of new comic called #twinkiemommy #chinesenewyear #dragondance #toisan #chinesamerican #comics #drawing #illustration #luckyoranges #mommyhood https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv7otySBsQc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eiv50ee9o0d8

[hesitationss]

i found out just now there is a kpop man who is from my ancestral region (actually just abc but he speaks our language), toisan, his stage name is beomhan or something? i want to listen to his music if anyone has recommendations!

[rosannau]

Montreal NACIVT (I)

September 2018

Montreal, Quebec

[greaterthannine-blog]

7. Roots 07/01/2018 [J]

第七天：台山

Day Seven: Toisan [Taishan]

 PHOTOGRAPHY & COMMENTARY:

Isabella Xu

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AS THE DAYS IN TOISAN PASSED, hour by hour, I often caught myself pondering: What did I find so deeply profound about these villages? As scenic photographer for almost all rootings, most of my time in villages [that weren't my own], was spent alone, and that solitude gave me ample time to think about this question. Of course, in the moment, in China, in villages, in the humidity, I never comprehensively formed and verbalized this question, but that ever-present, unformed thought was my constant companion in my treks. (You know what I'm talking about; when you're thinking about something really deep, but you haven't yet recognized and/or categorized it as something deep? Yeah, that's what happened here. Exceptionally metaphysical, I know).

Anyways, in that solitude I was able to witness each village for who it is. Now, I purposely chose the word "who" over "what" because each of these villages, while eerily similar, all possessed their own unique personality. You might be objecting in that little head of yours, "A village can't have a personality! It's not a person!" and you are correct in that regard. A village is not an individual, but it is comprised of individuals, and those individuals work in unison to make the community who it is. Think of how large metropolitan cities have a character of their own: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, NYC, Miami, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Melbourne, Manila, Delhi, Cairo, Marrakesh, Milan, Athens, Budapest, Paris, Barcelona, London, Copenhagen, to name a

Trifecta of an Outhouse ↑↑ (Jeremy's ancestral village)

a few (okay well, admittedly I've been to only about four of those cities, but let's not think about that right now). Each city has a personality; characteristics that distinguish it from the rest of the world. Now, imagine you condense and scale down that concept into a much smaller community of three hundred people. Those distinguishing qualities are there, maybe a bit subtler, but they're still ever-present.  

Considering the question of what I found so visually intriguing about these villages, because each community had it's own distinctive characteristics (though I'll admit they were very minor differences) I unknowingly sought to photograph these details that made each village who it was at the time of my visit. Each night, while lounging on a hotel bed, I looked through the images I shot that day, and after two or three days, I noticed a trend. I realized I had unknowingly been photographing each village's minor distinctive characteristics. Considering the question of what I

found so visually intriguing about them, my interests laid in documenting the details of the people. My eye was drawn to seeking out man-made objects, spaces influenced by human presence, and areas impacted by their people. I sought to shoot evidence of human presence, but sans that primary variable. I didn't want people in these photos, and if there were people in the shot, I ensured that they weren't the subject. 

Now I recognize that this may seem a bit odd, slightly anal, might suggest acute paranoia, and could be a potential pathway towards hermit-hood, but I implore that this is not the case [entirely]. Including humans as subjects in these photographs would have altered my thematic quest to show what comprises a human population, and what makes a civilization. Featuring humans in these photos would automatically and inherently show how a scene was human. I strove to show how humans are humans without humans (How many times can Isabella say the word human in one sitting? At this point she's written the word ten times). I'd see a doorway and know: This is human. I'd see rice, roasting in the blazing sun and know: this is human. I'd see a rusting tractor and know: this is human. All these things are what humanity is. Not just people. After recognizing the pattern in my images, I realized I unconsciously asked myself: How can I represent humanity, without humans present? By photographing their things. By photographing their spaces. And by photographing what makes them, them. ●

Brickwork Maze (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)  ↑↑  (Jeremy's ancestral village)

[ericmar]

SF Life ☯️MashUp - #Toisan Pride, The great #TomAmmiano & beloved #PeteYamamoto, Beauty of SF Color, & 👁aging👁 (at Ocean Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ChuBnB3xH/?igshid=1u6sqavbmlnzt