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When Legacy Lore and Research Collide
East-West Legacy

When Legacy Lore and Research Collide

Surprise! Not everything our family tells us is true

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Apr 22, 2022
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This morning I received an email that torpedoed one of my family’s central myths. My father and his siblings always told the rest of us that their grandfather was “the Viceroy of Canton.” Naturally, our extended family took that as gospel— even if we could never identify the specific viceroy whose dates in Guangzhou (Canton) lined up…

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