{"id":11483,"date":"2011-01-14T21:41:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2011-01-14T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:52:27","slug":"the-chinese-in-the-caribbean-book-reveiw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11483","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal<\/a>
\nVolume 3, Issue 1<\/a> (Spring 2005)
\n8 paragraphs
\nISSN 1547-7150<\/p>\n

Kathryn Morris<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean<\/a><\/em>. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp.<\/p>\n

The Hakka<\/a> are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of us have relatives in Surinam<\/a>, Panama<\/a>, the British West Indies<\/a>, as well as Singapore<\/a>, Malaysia<\/a> and other parts of South-east Asia<\/a>. After several more generations in Canada<\/a>, will it still be significant that we sojourned for a few generations in Jamaica<\/a>? For now and as far we can see, that is how we identify ourselves and that is also how we are perceived by the wider Canadian community . . . In this generation we became part of a North American community, with significant concentration in Miami<\/a>, New York<\/a>, Toronto<\/a> and other U.S. and Canadian cities and even London, England<\/a>, as well as Hong Kong<\/a> and Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Patrick A. Lee, Canadian Jamaican Chinese 2000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Culturally, the signifier \u201cChinese\u201d in the Caribbean context has evolved into a broad term that encompasses the latest group of emigrants to the region; the hyphenated (Trinidadian, Jamaican, etc.), third- or fourth-generation, mixed-ancestry Chinese; and the countless members of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora who are still \u201con the move.\u201d<\/strong> Toronto, home to a large population of people who define themselves as Chinese\u2014insert Caribbean country here\u2014Canadian, has become a major center for Chinese Caribbean diasporan activity aimed at maintaining connections to the Caribbean and to China. For example, Patrick Lee\u2019s work, excerpted above, presents pictorial and narrative histories of Jamaican Chinese<\/a> families spanning five generations; Lee\u2019s work pays tributes to his father, Lee Tom Yin\u2019s earlier work, Chinese in Jamaica <\/em>(1957), which commemorated the 100-year anniversary of the Chinese arrival in Jamaica. Reaching further out into the world, the celebrity of Jamaican reggae artist Sean Paul<\/a>, who claims Chinese among his ancestors, has put the Chinese-Caribbean connection in the international spotlight. This substantial community is now a dragon with a foot on every continent and is growing in size and visibility. Andrew R. Wilson\u2019s The Chinese in the Caribbean<\/em>, which begins with the statement, \u201cThe macro-historical significance of Chinese emigration [since the 1830s] is undeniable,\u201d is the latest publication to bring critical attention to this Caribbean and global phenomenon (vii).
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\nThe Chinese in the Caribbean<\/em> is a collection of eight essays that together provide a fairly detailed overview about the Chinese presence in the Caribbean. Divided into three parts\u2014The British West Indies, Cuba<\/a>, and Re-Migration and Re-Imagining Identity\u2014this book manages to be accessible to those seeking introductory information on the topic, and yet detailed enough for scholars to engage in topical research.
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\nRead the entire reveiw here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,5,21,459,8],"tags":[2288,2289,5189,5188],"class_list":["post-11483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-andrew-r-wilson","tag-andrew-wilson","tag-anthurium-a-caribbean-studies-journal","tag-kathryn-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483","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=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}