{"id":11178,"date":"2011-01-01T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:38","slug":"chinos-and-paisanos-chinese-mexican-relations-in-the-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11178","title":{"rendered":"Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pacific Historical Review<\/a>
\nVolume 79, Number 1<\/a> (February 2010)
\nPages 50\u201385
\nDOI: 10.1525\/phr.2010.79.1.50<\/a><\/p>\n

Julian Lim<\/a><\/strong>
\nCornell University<\/em><\/p>\n

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Using the testimonio<\/em> of Manuel Lee Mancilla, a Chinese Mexican man born in Mexicali<\/a> in 1921, this article explores the experiences of the Chinese in northern Mexico in the early 1900s<\/a>. It examines the conditions under which Chinese immigrants came to and helped build new borderland communities and simultaneously recovers the day-to-day relationships that were negotiated and nurtured there. Meaningful moments of Chinese Mexican cooperation emerged amid intense conflict and despite the anti-Chinese campaigns of the Mexican Revolution<\/a> and the infamous Sonoran<\/a> purges of the 1930s. Challenging static notions of ethnic and racial identities and relations, and analyzing the anti-Chinese movements in less monolithic terms, this article examines not only how Chinese and Mexicans weathered revolutionary violence and xenophobia but also the turbulent forces of U.S. capital and labor exploitation on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1920 Manual Lee Chew’s family held a great wedding banquet at the Casa Blanca restaurant, located in the center of Mexicali\u2019s la Chinesca <\/em>[Chinatown].\u00a0 All of the Lees, along with their paisanos<\/em> [countrymen], were there to celebrate. It was a momentous occasion as well, for the bride was one of the first Mexicans to marry a Chinese in Mexicali.\u00a0 For family friends such as Samuel Lee, it was the perfect event for sharing their good fortune and wishes with the happy couple: Samuel Lee proudly lent his cherished Cadillac to Lee Chew for the wedding.\u00a0 More that seventy years later, memories about the great celebration and other experiences of Chinese immigrants in the Mexican borderlands…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands Pacific Historical Review Volume 79, Number 1 (February 2010) Pages 50\u201385 DOI: 10.1525\/phr.2010.79.1.50 Julian Lim Cornell University Using the testimonio of Manuel Lee Mancilla, a Chinese Mexican man born in Mexicali in 1921, this article explores the experiences of the Chinese in northern Mexico in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,21,459,8,103],"tags":[4955,4956,20753,1719],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-julian-lim","tag-mexicali","tag-mexico","tag-pacific-historical-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}