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The Boat Dwellers, also known as Shuishangren (Chinese: 水上人; pinyin: shuǐshàng rén; Cantonese Yale: Séuiseuhngyàn; "people living on the water") or Boat People, or the derogatory Tankas, [2] [3] are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China [4] who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river, as ...
As a branch of the Tanka people, Fuzhou Tanka has been in South China for more than 2000 years. [2] Their Fuzhounese name "Kuóh-dà̤" ( 曲 蹄 ) is a derogatory term used by the Fuzhou people on land, which can be literally translated into " bowlegged " and might come from the bow shape of their legs caused by longtime living in the low ...
There are many different typhoon shelters in Hong Kong. The Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter was established in 1915 after a serious typhoon that hit on 18 September 1906.Around 3,000 fish boats sank because of the typhoon, prompting the Hong Kong Government to build a typhoon shelter for those boat people who relied on fishery in Yau Ma Tei to make a living.
A community of boat dwellers is protesting attempts by Miami Beach officials to cut off access to a city-owned dock that live-aboards describe as a lifeline that lets them get food and water.
A new ordinance, which received final approval from the City Commission late last month and took effect Aug. 3, declares that the boat ramp at Maurice Gibb Park in Sunset Harbour can only be used ...
The treadmill provides the same opportunity that walking across the parking lot offers; and swimming or rowing a boat works many of the same muscles that weightlifters target with dumbbells and ...
The term "Tanka" translates to "egg people," a name derived from the group historically paying taxes with eggs instead of currency. While the Tanka people use this term to refer to themselves, its usage by outsiders is regarded as derogatory. In addition to the Tanka, there is another ethnic group in the floating village known as the Hoklo.
The Tanka are a group of boat-dwellers who speak a Sinitic language and who claim Han ancestry, but who have traditionally faced severe discrimination from the other Southern Han subgroups. Unlike the Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan Han (whose dominant Y-chromosome haplotype is the Han patriline O2-M122), the Tanka have been shown instead to have ...