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Diaspora and Double Happiness: Tracking Rice Bowls Across the Pacific (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Double Happiness is a ceramic pattern that was popular during the 1850s and 1860s at Chinese diaspora communities in the Western United States, but is rare in post-1870s sites. My recent archaeological investigations in China indicate, however, that Double Happiness was abundant in the home...