Post by NZBC on Dec 6, 2010 19:02:00 GMT 12
www.library.ubc.ca/asian/celebrating50/Head%20Tax%20brochure2.pdf
The very idiosyncratic dialects of the Chinese immigrants from a myriad of villages and towns of southern Guangdong contributed to a collection of sometimes indecipherable documentation of their roots. The inability of customs personnel to accurately capture and document the details in verbatim form during immigration interviews left behind a myriad of Romanized forms of the reported places of origin. As a result, analysis and research on the regional identities have been rendered fuzzy and inaccurate.
The very idiosyncratic dialects of the Chinese immigrants from a myriad of villages and towns of southern Guangdong contributed to a collection of sometimes indecipherable documentation of their roots. The inability of customs personnel to accurately capture and document the details in verbatim form during immigration interviews left behind a myriad of Romanized forms of the reported places of origin. As a result, analysis and research on the regional identities have been rendered fuzzy and inaccurate.