RE: Tsung-Tsin Association for Seattle

[teoh@cs.utk.edu]

>From henrylee@MICROSOFT.com Mon Mar 24 18:19:49 1997
Subject: RE: Tsung-Tsin Association for Seattle

There was an article about the history of the Tsung-Tsin
Association of NY in one of last year's Hakka Monthly
issues from Meizhou (I can't remember -- I think it
was 1996 April).  I have a photcopy, so it's pages 49
and 15.   It started in 1918 in Brooklyn as "ren2 he2 fang2"
before moving to Manhatten in 1921 and changing to
its present name, and details stuff until 1994.

I can fax you the photocopy.  It's all in simplified Chinese,
of course :-).

I know there are Tsung-Tsin Associations in Vancouver BC,
and San Franciso, and a Basel church in Vancouver also.
In the Dallas-Austin-Houston area, there's a Kejia Tong Xiang Hui,
mostly Taiwanese Hakka.

I hope this helps,
Henry Lee

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bayer Jack-Wah Lee [SMTP:bjl5@columbia.edu]
> Sent:	1997Dj3TB24HU 9:33
> To:	teoh@cs.utk.edu
> Cc:	Henry Lee; bjl5@columbia.edu
> Subject:	Re: Tsung-Tsin Association for Seattle
> 
> Dear Mr. Lee:
> 
> Your description of Tsung-Tsin Assoc.of Seattle sounds so simular to
> the
> experience I had a month ago when I when up to visit the Tsung-Tsin
> Assoc. on the corner of Doyer and Catherine Street in New York
> Chinatown.  There were also many elderly gentlemen (no women that I
> saw)
> playing Majong.  Doyer Street (once called the "Hat Street" and two
> streets from Mott Street, the heart of old Chinatown) appears to be
> the
> original street of the Hakka Community in the predominant Taishan
> dominated New York Chinatown. 
> 
> I am begining to investigat the history of the Hakka community and
> Tsung-Tsin Assoc. in New York and their relationship to the Taishans. 
> The starting point of my inquiry are the Tsung-Tsin Assoc. and
> churches
> in Hongkong as well the Basel Mission archival materials on Wuhua (the
> work of Karl Gutzlaff and Rudolf Lechler that Professor Jessie Lutz
> had
> been writing about). 
> 
> Do you have any material on the history of the Tsung-Tsin Assoc. in
> the
> United States (as well as the rest of the world)?
> 
> Bayer Lee