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From California to Kaiping
Season 12
Episode 6
In 2009, native Sacramentan Casey Chin began a personal odyssey to re-discover his ancestral roots by visiting his family village in Guangzhou Province, China. ViewFinder: From California to Kaiping traces his journey to understand the forces that compel people to emigrate to a new land, and their challenges in assimilating to a new culture in the United States.
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