Hoisan

English

Etymology

From Taishanese 臺山／台山 (hoi³ san¹).

Proper noun

Hoisan

1. Synonym of Taishan
   • 1958, Certain Aliens‎^[1], pages 40–41:

     Mr. Dempsey stressed the fact that the beneficiaries will be well provided for financially if they are permitted to remain in the United States, and that the beneficiaries are fearful of returning to China because their husband-father was killed by the Communists in Hoisan in 1951.

   • 2014, Genevieve Leung, “Hoisan-wa in jest: Humor, laughter, and the construction of counter-hegemonic affect in contemporary Chinese American language maintenance”, in Humor, volume 27, number 2, page 213:

     ML’s response to WL, that Hoisan people are like “soul people,” or people who are connected with soul music, ties back to his original point about passion and life: not only are Hoisan people connected to soul people from a musical perspective, to have “soul” also refers to having emotional energy or intensity, something ML had previously stated is a positive attribute of Hoisan-wa.

   • 2017, Henry Yu, Stephanie Chan, “The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks and Mobility Across Space and Time”, in Lloyd L. Wong, editor, Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45:

     Like other familial networks that spanned the Cantonese Pacific during the nineteenth and twentieth century, that of the Mahs from Hoisan consisted of discrete sets of interconnected migrations that originated in a small number of villages in a small number of villages in a few counties, dispersing in a recurring pattern over many generations to multiple destinations across a vast space.

Derived terms

• Hoisanese

Further reading

• “Hoisan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.