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The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now
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2009
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This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book is a translation of a study by Mauro Garc'a Triana and Pedro Eng Herrera on the history of the Chinese presence in Cuba. Over many years, Garc'a and Eng have collaborated closely on scholarly research on the Chinese contribution to Cuban life and politics, although their work is not widely known. Both are well equipped for such an enterprise: Eng as a Cuban of Chinese descent and a participant in the ethnic-Chinese revolutionary movement in Cuba, starting in the 1950s; Garc'a as a participant in the struggle against Batista and Cuban Ambassador to China during the period of the Cultural Revolution. The study is supplemented by an extensive collection of archival photographs and of paintings on Cuban-Chinese themes by Pedro Eng, who is not just a chronicler of the community but a well-known worker-artist who paints in a style described by commentators as 'naive.' The volume has three appendices: excerpts from the Cuba Commission's 1877 report on Chinese emigration to Cuba; the rebel leader Gonzalo de Quesada y Ar-stegui's pamphlet 'The Chinese and Cuban Independence,' translated from his book Mi primera ofrenda (My first offering), first published in 1892; and the chapter on 'Coolie Life in Cuba' from Duvon Clough Corbitt's Study of the Chinese in Cuba, 1847-1947 (Wilmore 1971).
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3343-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3345-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
1
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Contents No access
Frontispiece No access
Preface No access
Editor's Introduction No access
Authors' Introduction No access
Chapter 1 The Chinese in Cuba's Wars of Independence No access Pages 1 - 54
Chapter 2 Chinese Business in Cuba in the Twentieth Century No access Pages 55 - 74
Chapter 3 Chinese in Cuban Cultural Life No access Pages 75 - Z
Appendix 1: Chinese Emigration, the Cuba Commission. Report of the Commission Sent by China to Ascertain the Condition of Life of Chinese Coolies in Cuba (1877) No access Pages 141 - 184
Appendix 2: Gonzalo de Quesada, The Chinese and Cuban Independence (1892) No access Pages 185 - 194
Appendix 3: Duvon Clough Corbitt, Coolie Life in Cuba (1971) No access Pages 195 - 218
Index No access Pages 219 - 231
About the Authors No access Pages 232 - 232
About the Editor and Translator No access Pages 233 - 1
