Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995: A Documentary History
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766400217
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Guest Foreword
Preface
List of documentary sources
I: INTRODUCTION
1 The Chinese in the Caribbean region
II: POSSIBILITIES AND PROSPECTS OF ORGANISED EMIGRATION
2 Early efforts at importing Chinese labour into the West Indies (1802–1806): the Fortitude experiment in Trinidad
3 Events leading up to organised emigration from China to the British West Indies (1811–1852)
4 General picture of emigration from China in the 1850s
III: EMIGRATION AND ADIUSTMENT TO WEST INDIAN PLANTATIONS
5 Beginning of the emigration process (1852–1854)
6 The emigration years (1859–1866)
7 Social adjustment to plantation life and society
IV: THE KUNG CONVENTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
8 The diplomatic impasse over the 1866 Convention, and the last years of the West Indian migration (1866–1884)
V: THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN CHINESE COMMUNITY
9 Life after indenture: indentured servants to traders (1870–1918)
10 Life in the inter-war period and after: social mobility, assimilation and the new migration (1918–1950)
Appendix I. Tables of statistics
Appendix II. Biographies of Chinese families (to the 1990s)
Bibliography
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