Hit film brings overseas Chinese remittance letters back into spotlight

A tourist poses for photos at a museum dedicated to qiaopi in Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province, May 18, 2026. Qiaopi -- letters and remittances sent home by earlier generations of overseas Chinese -- once traveled quietly across oceans, carrying longing and news from distant lives back to families waiting in China. (Photo by Lin Peng/Xinhua)