A STUDY IN THE Social Life of the Chinese IN THE Eastern Cities of the United States. BY STEWART CULIN. READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY), AT THE THIRTY-SIXTH MEETING, NEW YORK, 1887. PHILADELPHIA: 1887.  ...

The Chinese laborers in America all come from the departments of Kwangchau and Shauking, in the province of Kwantung. They describe themselves as Púntí or "natives," as distinguished from the tribes called Hákká or "strangers," and divide themselves into the people of the Sam Yup ("Three Towns") and those of the Sz' Yup ("Four Towns"), the former from the three districts of Nánhái (1), 1 Pw'anyú (2), and Shunteh (3), and the latter from the four districts of Sinhwui (4), Sinning (5), Kaiping (6)