{"id":61438,"date":"2021-09-06T02:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61438"},"modified":"2021-09-12T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T22:48:13","slug":"tracing-roots-of-the-chinese-jamaican-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61438","title":{"rendered":"Tracing roots of the Chinese Jamaican diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/tracing-roots-of-the-chinese-jamaican-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Tracing roots of the Chinese Jamaican diaspora<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gal-dem<\/a><br \/>\n2021-09-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nandinahislop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nandina Hislop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/tracing-roots-of-the-chinese-jamaican-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mloz5fexx1sj.i.optimole.com\/gmV1hb0-uvvmCC8K\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:100\/https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Forgotten-Diasporas_Chinese-Jamaicans-copy-1.png\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>via author<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caribbean<\/a> island, how did such a unique community form?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When my maternal great-grandfather Baker Chung-Yu migrated from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a> over a hundred years ago, he probably didn\u2019t expect that a few generations later, there would be over <a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/tracing-roots-of-the-chinese-jamaican-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans<\/a> residing in the land of wood and water. He arrived as a businessman in the 1920s, after Hong Kong was snatched by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Empire<\/a> in 1842, seeking financial comfort for his future. This move allowed him to meet my Afro and Indo-Jamaican great-grandmother May Ranger and unknowingly spark the beginning of a growing Chinese-Jamaican family that would live to continuously explain our unusual heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, I didn\u2019t fully grasp the meaning of what it meant to be a Chinese immigrant in Jamaica. I am fourth generation Chinese, mixed in heritage and Black in racial identity. Born in Jamaica, raised in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turks and Caicos Islands<\/a>, and now living in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a>, my hop-scotching residential reality had meant I was isolated from most of my extended family, a significant portion being those of Chinese descent. Now that I\u2019m older, I crave details about my Chinese ancestry and am now exploring a cavernous story rooted in struggle and resilience that I never knew existed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/tracing-roots-of-the-chinese-jamaican-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the Caribbean island, how did such a unique community form?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,21,459,8],"tags":[31852,24052,4773,80,31854,31853,31855],"class_list":["post-61438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-baker-chung-yu","tag-gal-dem","tag-hong-kong","tag-jamaica","tag-may-ranger","tag-nandina-hislop","tag-patrick-bryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61438","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=61438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61457,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61438\/revisions\/61457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}