The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean is a 2010 book edited by Walton Look Lai and Tan Chee-Beng and published by Brill.
The essays in the book were previously published as a portion of an issue of the , a publication of the (ISSCO) of Singapore. Look Lai is a University of the West Indies (UWI) professor who specialized in studying the British Caribbean population of Chinese and Southeast Asians. Tan, a Hong Kong-based man who is the editor of the Journal of Overseas Chinese, is a specialist in studying the Southeast Asian ethnic Chinese populations.[1]
Contents[]
Look Lai wrote the introduction.[1]
The remaining portion of the book has three parts, which together have eight chapters.[2] The Chinese immigration discussed in these chapters include those from the early colonial era to the present.[1]
The sole article of Part I is "The Early Colonial Period" by Edward Slack, Jr. This article discusses the first Chinese immigration to Mexico.[2] The source material of this chapter originates from the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain and the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City.[3] John Kuo Wei Tchen of New York University wrote that the Slack article "is a valuable baseline framing of the early Manila-Acapulco “China trade,” the Asian peoples moving to colonial Mexico, and the emergence of the New World typology of “chino” or “indio chino,” a legal subcategory of the “indios” of the Americas."[1]
Part II, "The Classic Migration," includes Chapters 2-5. Chapter 2, written by Look Lai, discusses overall migration from Asia during the 19th Century. Chapter 3, written by Evelyn Hu-Dehart, discusses anti-Chinese sentiment in Latin America.[2] Hu-Dehart's essay examines a question asked by , a scholar from Mexico, on whether the Chinese in Latin America are "integrated and foreign."[4] Chapter 4,[2] written by Belizean St. John Robinson, is a comparative analysis[4] which discusses Chinese populations of Central America. Chapter 5, written by Lisa Yun, is an interview with discussing Lum's book, . Dorothea A. L. Martin of Appalachian State University stated that the first two chapters of this section are "the anchors of the work".[2]
Part III, "Old Migrants, new Immigration," includes Chapters 6-8. The overall focus are relations between different generations of immigrants in Latin America. Chapter 6, by Isabelle Lausent-Herrera, discusses the history and internal relations of Chinese Peruvians. Chapter 7,[2] written by anthropologist Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat, discusses the groups of Chinese Surinamese and their responses to anti-Chinese sentiment.[4] Chapter 8, by Kathleen Lopez, discusses Chinese Cubans in the post-Soviet Union era.[2] The article discusses a PRC-Cuba initiative to renovate the Havana Chinatown.[4]
Notes[]
References[]
- Tchen, John Kuo Wei (New York University). "The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean."(Book review) (Archive). New West Indian Guide, Winter, 2012, Vol.86(3-4), p. 371(4) [Peer Reviewed Journal] ISSN 1382-2373 - Cengage Learning
Further reading[]
- Lai, Walton Look. "The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean" (review). , 5, 1, 1-3(3) [Peer Reviewed Journal] ISSN 1793-0391 - Brill (IngentaConnect) - DOI 10.1163/179325409X434478
- 2010 non-fiction books
- Books about Latin America
- Books about the Caribbean
- Chinese Latin American