Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.

All the sounds mingle with the chinkings of the gold and silver coin […]

To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.

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.