Contributing to the growing body of scholarship that attends to Asian diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean, José Chez Checo's book performs a historical mapping of Chinese migration to the Dominican Republic from 1862 to 1961. The Dominican historian of Chinese descent unearths the Chinese presence from government decrees, census records, local newspapers and magazines, memoirs, autobiographies, other historiographical writings, and literary and cultural productions, highlighting the diplomatic, economic, and cultural exchanges between China (the Qing dynasty and later the Republic of China) and the Dominican Republic. With Chez Checo's personal Chinese Dominican experience and his correspondence with other Chinese Dominicans included, this book serves as not only an attempt to write the Chinese into the national history but also the author's nostalgic investigation into the otherwise lost roots of his own identity.
La migración china en República Dominicana is organized in chronological order and sectioned into five time...