Szeyap
English
Etymology
From Cantonese 四邑 (sei3 jap1).
Proper noun
Szeyap
- Synonym of Siyi
- 1985, Grace Pung Guthrie, A School Divided: An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 33:
- These sojourners were quite a homogeneous group in language, culture, family, and socioeconomic status. Practically all of them were peasants from the arid Szeyap (i.e., "four districts") area southwest of Canton, the capital city of the province of Kwangtung.
- 2016, Lively, Amy, “CHINESE IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA”, in Jonathan H. X. Lee, editor, Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, LCCN 2015035598, OCLC 900016693, page 68:
- Chinese immigrants, many of them from the Szeyap region of southern China, were actively recruited to take the place of slave labor. By 1880, just over 50 Chinese immigrants were living in Mississippi. However, the Chinese quickly learned that there was little money to be made as plantation workers and many turned to owning and operating grocery stores as a means of financial survival.
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