Hoisan

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.

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

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.

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, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45