Kinship & Culture

Exploring East Asian surnames, ancestral seats, kinship institutions, lineage organizations, ancestral rites and cultural identity through comparative research and cross-cultural dialogue.

2026年11月9日

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One Old Genealogy, Two Branches: Yilan’s Zhang Clan Reconnects Its Lineage in Panchi, Pinghe

On 1 November 2026 a Zhang clan delegation from Yilan, Taiwan, visited Panchi village in Pinghe county, Fujian, making offerings at two ancestral halls and taking part in a genealogy reconciliation session in which old registers were compared line by line to trace shared lineage and migration routes. The group also toured the century-old Hakka tulou known as Liucheng Lou.

2026年11月5日

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A Century Later, He Found Where His Great-Grandfather Set Out: A Malaysian School Principal’s Root-Seeking Journey in Quanzhou

Aided by Quanzhou university staff and the Nan'an Overseas Chinese Federation, Malaysian school principal Hau Chun Hing traced the words 'Nan'an Gelin' on his grandfather's tombstone to his great-grandfather Hou Yejun's ancestral home in Gelin, Jintao, where he was born in 1881 before sailing to Malacca—a century-long search brought to a close.

2026年10月16日

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Three Hundred Pages of an Ancestral Scroll, Now in the Cloud: How One Overseas-Chinese Village Digitized Its Genealogy for Root-Seekers Worldwide

In Laishu village, Heshan, Jiangmen, a team from South China University of Technology digitized more than 300 pages of the Zhong clan's genealogy page by page and built a genealogy website: authorized descendants can add new generations online, and overseas kin can trace their ancestral origins remotely. From diaolou AR tours to oral-history videos, a thousand-year village's memory is being reborn in the cloud.

2026年2月10日

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Bronze-Age Co-Burials at Dongshantou, Jilin: Ancient Genomes Reveal Patrilineality and Female Exogamy

Eleven individuals from two Late Bronze-Age co-burials at Dongshantou, Jilin, all share Y-haplogroup C2b while mtDNA varies—evidence of a single patriline and female exogamy.

2026年1月26日

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Ancient DNA Opens a 4,500-Year-Old Matrilineal Society: Two Long-Lasting Maternal Lineages at the Fujia Site, Shandong

At the 4,500-year-old Dawenkou-period Fujia site in Shandong, ancient-DNA kinship analysis identifies two sharply bounded, long-enduring maternal lineages, directly evidencing a prehistoric matrilineal clan.

2025年11月28日

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Why Were Most Sacrificed Individuals at Shimao Male? Reading a 4,300-Year-Old Society from Ancient DNA

Of about 80 skulls from Shimao's East Gate, ancient DNA shows nine in ten were male—upending prior expectations. Here is how scientists read a 4,300-year-old patrilineal society from bone genomes.

2025年11月27日

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Ancient DNA from Shimao Records Kinship Practices in Neolithic China

Sequencing 169 ancient samples from Shimao, Qiaomei Fu's team traces the population mainly to local late Yangshao ancestry, reconstructs a four-generation patrilineage, and finds mostly male sacrificial victims at the East Gate.

2025年10月21日

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Guangming Daily Interprets Baligang Ancient DNA: A 5,000-Year-Old Patrilineal Clan and North–South Cultural Fusion

Guangming Daily and follow-up central-media coverage frame the Baligang genomes as evidence of a 5,000-year-old patrilineal clan and four millennia of Yellow-Yangtze fusion.

2025年10月1日

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58 Ancient Genomes from Baligang Reveal a 5,000-Year-Old Patrilineal Community and Four Millennia of North–South Admixture in the Middle Yangtze

Whole genomes from 58 Baligang individuals reveal a turning point around 4,200 years ago, sustained north-south admixture, and a 5,000-year-old patrilineal clan—plus a new low-coverage sex-estimation method.

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Kinship & Culture

One Old Genealogy, Two Branches: Yilan’s Zhang Clan Reconnects Its Lineage in Panchi, Pinghe

A Century Later, He Found Where His Great-Grandfather Set Out: A Malaysian School Principal’s Root-Seeking Journey in Quanzhou

Three Hundred Pages of an Ancestral Scroll, Now in the Cloud: How One Overseas-Chinese Village Digitized Its Genealogy for Root-Seekers Worldwide

Bronze-Age Co-Burials at Dongshantou, Jilin: Ancient Genomes Reveal Patrilineality and Female Exogamy

Ancient DNA Opens a 4,500-Year-Old Matrilineal Society: Two Long-Lasting Maternal Lineages at the Fujia Site, Shandong

Why Were Most Sacrificed Individuals at Shimao Male? Reading a 4,300-Year-Old Society from Ancient DNA

Ancient DNA from Shimao Records Kinship Practices in Neolithic China

Guangming Daily Interprets Baligang Ancient DNA: A 5,000-Year-Old Patrilineal Clan and North–South Cultural Fusion

58 Ancient Genomes from Baligang Reveal a 5,000-Year-Old Patrilineal Community and Four Millennia of North–South Admixture in the Middle Yangtze