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An amazing resource and detailed genealogy guide for researching Chinese names, locating ancestral villages, finding surname societies, and learning about Chinese settlements in Hawaii. Includes numerous sources and includes translations of many Chinese characters. A reprint of the Proceedings of the 1985 Genealogy Conference in Hawaii, edited by Kum Pui Lai and Violet Lau Lai and originally published by the Hawaii Chinese History Center in 1988.