The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995 : a documentary history /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Look Lai, Walton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kingston, Jamaica : Press, University of the West Indies, ©1998.
Temas:
Chinese > West Indies > History.
Immigrants > West Indies > History.
Chinois > Antilles > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Chinese.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Race relations.
Chinezen.
Immigranten.
China > Emigration and immigration.
West Indies > Emigration and immigration.
West Indies > Race relations.
Antilles > Émigration et immigration.
Antilles > Relations raciales.
China.
West Indies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Bridget Brereton
  • Guest Foreword / Lu Shulin
  • The Chinese in the Caribbean region
  • Possibilities and Prospects of Organised Emigration
  • Early efforts at importing Chinese labour into the West Indies (1802-1806): the Fortitude experiment in Trinidad
  • Events leading up to organised emigration from China to the British West Indies (1811-1852)
  • General picture of emigration from China in the 1850s
  • Emigration and Adjustment to West Indian Plantations
  • Beginning of the emigration process (1852-1854)
  • The emigration years (1859-1866)
  • Social adjustment to plantation life and society
  • The Kung Convention and Its Aftermath
  • The diplomatic impasse over the 1866 Convention, and the last years of the West Indian migration (1866-1884)
  • The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Community
  • Life after indenture: indentured servants to traders (1870-1918)
  • Life in the inter-war period and after: social mobility, assimilation and the new migration (1918-1950)
  • Biographies of Chinese families (to the 1990s).

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