Foreword / Bridget Brereton -- Guest Foreword / Lu Shulin -- The Chinese in the Caribbean region -- Possibilities and Prospects of Organised Emigration -- Early efforts at importing Chinese labour into the West Indies (1802-1806): the Fortitude experiment in Trinidad -- Events leading up to organised emigration from China to the British West Indies (1811-1852) -- General picture of emigration from China in the 1850s -- Emigration and Adjustment to West Indian Plantations -- Beginning of the emigration process (1852-1854) -- The emigration years (1859-1866) -- Social adjustment to plantation life and society -- The Kung Convention and Its Aftermath -- The diplomatic impasse over the 1866 Convention, and the last years of the West Indian migration (1866-1884) -- The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Community -- Life after indenture: indentured servants to traders (1870-1918) -- Life in the inter-war period and after: social mobility, assimilation and the new migration (1918-1950) -- Biographies of Chinese families (to the 1990s)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338)
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