The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995 : A Documentary History

Name: The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995 : A Documentary History
Author: Walton Look Lai
ISBN: 9789766400217

by Walton Look Lai

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The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995 : A Documentary History

by Walton Look Lai

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The Chinese in West Indies "starts with an excellent introductory essay to place nineteenth-century Chinese immigration in its wider context: the worldwide Chinese migrations, the post-slavery Caribbean background, the contract labour schemes developed after emancipation ... All the documents are well chosen, and together they deal with virtually every important aspect of the migration of Chinese people to the West Indies and their subsequent experiences". Foreword Book jacket.

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PublisherUniversity of the West Indies Press

Publication DateAug. 1st, 2000

Pages338

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Guest Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xviii
List of documentary sources	p. xxvii
Introduction
The Chinese in the Caribbean region	p. 1
Possibilities and Prospects of Organised Emigration
Early efforts at importing Chinese labour into the West Indies (1802-1806): the Fortitude experiment in Trinidad	p. 22
Events leading up to organised emigration from China to the British West Indies (1811-1852)	p. 47
General picture of emigration from China in the 1850s	p. 69
Emigration and Adjustment to West Indian Plantations
Beginning of the emigration process (1852-1854)	p. 98
The emigration years (1859-1866)	p. 126
Social adjustment to plantation life and society	p. 165
The Kung Convention and Its Aftermath
The diplomatic impasse over the 1866 Convention, and the last years of the West Indian migration (1866-1884)	p. 192
The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Community
Life after indenture: indentured servants to traders (1870-1918)	p. 210
Life in the inter-war period and after: social mobility, assimilation and the new migration (1918-1950)	p. 234
Tables of statistics	p. 277
Biographies of Chinese families (to the 1990s)	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 333
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PublisherUniversity of the West Indies Press

Publication DateAug. 1st, 2000

Pages338

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