Taishan County or, more correctly these days, Taishan City (台山 Pinyin: Táishān) is located 140 kilometres west of Hong Kong and 100 kilometres south-west of Guangzhou. In Cantonese, it is known as Toishan, and occasionally as Toisan or Toisaan. It lies along the coastline of Guangdong Province in the southwest corner of the Pearl River Delta, and has an area of 3,286 km2 with a population of about 1 million. It is the homeland of some 1.3 million expatriate Chinese in over eighty countries.
Taishan was founded as Xinning District (新寧縣), and was variously known as Sunning, Sinning, Hsinning or Hsînnîng.
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If you haven't ordered and paid for your copy of Henry Tom's book Tan Genealogy: Heritage and Lineage, you are too late.
The updated Tan Clan Register for Taishan City should be available in Chinese sometime in September 2009. Once price and postage is known, orders will be taken.
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