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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995. Kingston, Jamaica : The Press, University of the West Indies, c1998 (OCoLC)607264523 Online version: Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995. Kingston, Jamaica : The Press, University of the West Indies, c1998 (OCoLC)608928038 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walton Look Lai |
| ISBN: | 9766400210 9789766400217 |
| OCLC Number: | 39522228 |
| Description: | xxxii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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). |
| Responsibility: | [compiled by] Walton Look Lai. |
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