Abacus and mah jong [electronic resource] : Sino-Mauritian settlement and economic consolidation / by Marina Carter and James Ng Foong Kwong.

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ISBN:

9789004175723

9789047429166

9781282401273

Title:

Abacus and mah jong [electronic resource] : Sino-Mauritian settlement and economic consolidation / by Marina Carter and James Ng Foong Kwong.

Author:

Carter, Marina.

Personal Author:

Carter, Marina.

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 1

Contents:

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.

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.

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Subject Term:

Chinese -- Mauritius -- Ethnic identity.

Chinese -- Mauritius -- Economic conditions.

Chinese -- Mauritius -- Social life and customs.

Land settlement patterns -- Mauritius -- History.

Economic development -- Mauritius -- History.

Geographic Term:

Mauritius -- Colonization.

Mauritius -- Economic conditions.

Mauritius -- Race relations.

Added Author:

Ng Foong Kwong, James.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Summary

This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in particular seeks to create a tableau within which the construction of a mythology of migration is set against the realities of negotiation and communication with the wider society.

Author Notes

Marina Carter obtained her doctorate at Oxford University and has published extensively on the social history of the Mascarene islands, including a number of monographs, co-authored volumes and a host of articles. James Ng Foong Kwong studied at the University of Reunion [France] where he produced two theses on the subject of Chinese migration to Mauritius. He co-authored Forging the Rainbow: Labour Immigrants in British Mauritius [Alfran, 1997].