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

Други автори: Look Lai, Walton.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Kingston, Jamaica : Press, University of the West Indies, ℗♭1998.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995.
Съдържание:
  • 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).