The Eurasian identity dates all the way back to the 19th century and first part of the 20th century, reports MIT News
In the early 1900s Mae Watkins met Tiam Hock Franking,
They soon married, but by 1907 a law in the United States removed American citizenship from anyone who married a foreign national.
So the couple moved to China in 1914.
“She did fully embrace her Chinese identity,” says Teng, the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Associate Professor of Asian Civilizations. “She considered herself to be Chinese.”
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