From the US to China: how an African-American woman can also be a Chinese Hakka

Paula Williams Madison is an African-American woman who grew up Harlem, New York City, and later when she retired, she found her Chinese grandfather’s family in Shenzhen, China in 2012. Her grandfather, Samuel Lowe, had gone to Jamaica in 1905 and went back to China over 30 years later. He had two Jamaican partners who bore him three children, one of which was Madison’s mother.

She considers herself both African American and Hakka Chinese and visits her Chinese relatives often. In October 2017, she came back with relatives not only from the United States but also Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Singapore to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the completion of their ancestral village Luo Rui He.

(Photo: SCMP’s Chen Xiaomei)

This video was originally published on 31 October 2017

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