Wolfram Eberhard

The Chinese New Year, even in communities so thoroughly Americanized as our Chinatowns, is a big event. . . . This is more than just a show for the visitors. New Year's day is the last and strongest link that unites the Chinese-American spiritually with his old home in Kwangtung province (for it is from this one province that the vast majority of Chinese Americans come).

— Wolfram Eberhard