Map of Zhongshan, US Consulate
Date Published
: legal restictions, China, Districts of Origin / Qiaoxiang / Zhongshan / 中山 (Chungshan, Hsiangshan (香山))
: Hong Kong
: Hong Kong
: c.1960
US Consulate Map of Zhongshan, part of a series on the Pearl River Delta.
US Consulate Map
US Consulate HK
US Immigration law necessitated detailed interviewing of returnees from China which in turn necessitated detailed information on the districts and villages in China. This map is part of a series on all the Pearl River Delata disticts.
Source: United States Consulate General, Hong Kong, Index of Clan Names by Villages for Toishan, Sunwui, Hoiping, and Chungshan Districts (Hong Kong: US Consulate General, 1965–1968).
For a comparison of US and Australian Chinese immigration laws see: Michael Williams, ‘Anglo-Saxonizing machines: Exclusion America, White Australia’, Chinese America – History and Perspectives, vol. 17, 2003, pp.23-33.
