Format:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047429166
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9004175725
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9789004175723
Series Statement:
European Expansion and Indigenous Response Ser. v.1
Content:
This case study of Chinese settlement in Mauritius investigates the complexities of colonial diasporas and sets the construction of a mythology of migration against the realities of the processes of negotiation and communication with the larger society.
Content:
Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Chinese Diaspora and the Colonial Indian Ocean -- The Chinese Presence on Mauritius -- Historiography and the Chinese Diaspora -- Chapter One Slaves, Convicts, Field Workers and Artisans: The Chinese in the Colonial Labour Diasporas -- A Note on Nomenclature -- Dutch Settlements in the Indian Ocean -- Chinese Immigrants in the 18th Century Isle of France -- The Importation of Chinese Labourers and Convicts into British Mauritius -- Chinese Artisans in 19th Century Mauritius -- Chapter Two The 'Celestial Shopkeeper': The Growth of a Chinese Commercial Class in Mauritius -- Chinese Traders in the Isle of France and Early British Mauritius -- Early Commercial Activities of Chinese Settlers -- A Temporary Setback: the Bank Robbery -- A New Wave of Chinese Immigrants and Geographical Dispersal of the Community -- Chinese Entrepreneurs and the Rum Industry -- The Chinese Commercial Class: Contemporary Appraisals -- Chapter Three Expansion and Diversifi cation: Sino-Mauritians and Economic Development -- Diversifi cation of the Chinese Business Sector in 19th Century Mauritius -- Developments in the 20th Century Retail Sector -- Diversifi cation in Employment and Business in 20th Century Colonial Mauritius -- Sino-Mauritians and the Post Independence Mauritian Economic Sector -- Chapter Four Managing Identity: t e Politics of Community Formation and Networking -- Preserving the Brand-Policing and Governance within the Chinese Community -- Credit and Clan Networks -- Inter Community Links -- Chinese Networks Across the Indian Ocean and Remigration Strategies -- Struggle for Representation: Political Institutions and the Chinese Community -- Managing Minority Status-Sino-Mauritians in the Post-Independence Period -- Sino-Mauritians and Regional Networking.
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Contents ; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Slaves, Convicts, Field Workers and Artisans: The Chinese in the Colonial Labour Diasporas; Chapter Two The 'Celestial Shopkeeper': The Growth of a Chinese Commercial Class in Mauritius; Chapter Three Expansion and Diversifi cation: Sino-Mauritians and Economic Development; Chapter Four Managing Identity: t e Politics of Community Formation and Networking; Chapter Five t e Construction of Community: Family, Kin, Social Networks; Chapter Six Sino-Mauritians in the Making of a Multi-Ethnic Society
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Conclusion (Appendices)Appendix One Occupations of the Population of Chinese Origin, 1901; Appendix Two t e Distribution of the Chinese Population in the Districts of Mauritus, 1921; Appendix Three The Urbanisation of the Population of Chinese Origin in Mauritius, 1952; Appendix Four Two of Many: Case Studies of Sino-Mauritians; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004175723
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004175723
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=467681
