Chinese Cubans : a transnational history /

In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants sear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: López, Kathleen (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Chapell Hill : The University of North Carolina Press 2013.
Series:Envisioning Cuba.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469607146_lpez
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A transnational history
  • From indentured to free. Coolies ; Free laborers ; Families and communities
  • Migrants between empires and nations. Freedom fighters ; Yellow peril
  • Transnational and national belonging. Transnational connections ; Chinese and Cubanidad ; Revolution and remigration
  • Epilogue
  • Chinese character glossary.