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From: "Chai Chin Lim" <>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [CARIBBEAN] "Cane Reapers" in B/dos and T/dad]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:56:32 +1000

Greetings

Ballarat's Soveriegn Hill did have a number of experts on the subject of
chinese miners. You should ring them and perhaps come to visit.

regards
chai in sunny Ballarat
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> Dear David,
> I found this in the Caribbean list. I am interested in Chinese
> in Australia. particularly those involved in the gold rushes in
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> Cheers, Chrisy Dennis, Melbourne
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> The book "Cane Reapers. Chinese Indentured Immigrants in Guyana" is now
> available in Barbados and Trinidad.
>
> In B/dos: Bernard Perkins, Earndale, Belmont Road, St. Michael, Barbados.
> Tel: 4266451.
>
> In T/dad: Darrell Lou-Hing, 5 3/4 Mile Post, Point Cumana, Trinidad. Tel:
> (868) 637-3246.
>
> "Cane Reapers" is the story of the first immigrants from China to Guyana
> (then British Guiana) during the period 1853 to 1879. They were procured
to
> work on the sugar plantations replacing the emancipated slaves of African
> origin. Altogether 13, 541 Chinese landed in Georgetown but by 1900 only
> some 3,000 remained in the local Chinese community. The majority had died
> without progeny since only 15% of the Chinese immigrants were female and
in
> those days inter-racial marriages were generally regarded as abnormal.
Many
> also emigrated to neighboring countries particularly Surinam, French
Guiana,
> Trinidad, Jamaica and Panama to seek better prospects for economic
progress.
>
> The tribulations and triumphs of the Chinese immigrants are described in
> "Cane Reapers," and reveal human nature in times of hardship and
alienation.
> Later generations have become a part of the creole community and have
> branched out into various fields of endeavour, many based on higher
> education. In the process of assimilation into Western culture many unique
> names have evolved creating both a mystery and a topic of fascination for
> the descendants and for genealogists.
>
> Please visit Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots
> http://members.tripod.com/~CGRoots
>
>
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