https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/525886/feed Lani Cupchoy, PhD, is based in Los Angeles, California, and is co-author of Echoes of Memory: War, Testimony and Survival on Sanzao Island. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg Lani Cupchoy Lani Cupchoy During Ching Ming Festival this year, I travelled to China for the first time and my family gathered on Sanzao Island in the Pearl River Delta to honour our ancestors. On a spring morning, as relatives offered incense and arranged paper offerings before the ancestral graves and thin streams of smoke drifted into the warm coastal air, I was at long last standing on the island my family had spoken about for generations. My great-grandfather had left Sanzao as a sojourner in the late 19th century... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/china-opinion/article/3359924/china-hawaii-and-bridge-memory-i-helped-build-between-them?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/china-opinion/article/3359924/china-hawaii-and-bridge-memory-i-helped-build-between-them?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:30:05 +0000