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Exploring a unique corner of the Asian American experience, this detailed study traces the history of the Chinese community in the West Indies utilising extensive archival and oral testimony from colonialism to the modern period.

This historical biography is a forgotten chapter in the drama of Republican China in the 1920s and 1930s. It recounts the story of EUGENE CHEN, the overseas Chinese lawyer who rose from diaspora obscurity to China's diplomatic and political heights in the Nationalist period. From son of Chinese immigrants in a remote British island colony in the Americas he rose to become one of Republican China's foremost progressive figures, and a person who...

In "Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar" Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies--with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialect...

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...