Chinese in Fiji / Bessie Ng Kumlin Ali.

By:

Ali, Bessie Ng Kumlin

Contributor(s):

University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, Unviersity of the South Pacific, 2002.Description: 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9820203392
9789820203396

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

996.1100495/1 22

Contents:

1. Leaving Guangdong -- 2. The newcomers -- 3. Overcoming barriers -- 4. Encounters in a new land -- 5. Traders and tillers -- 6. Punctuating a Presence -- 7. Politics -- 8. Calling Fiji home

Summary: The author describes her people's migration from China to Fiji, tracing their settlement from the 1870s to the present day. This is a history of their hopes and aspirations, their realities and decisions as they made new lives for themselves in a new land--From back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 305.895109611 NG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25030984

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.

1. Leaving Guangdong -- 2. The newcomers -- 3. Overcoming barriers -- 4. Encounters in a new land -- 5. Traders and tillers -- 6. Punctuating a Presence -- 7. Politics -- 8. Calling Fiji home

The author describes her people's migration from China to Fiji, tracing their settlement from the 1870s to the present day. This is a history of their hopes and aspirations, their realities and decisions as they made new lives for themselves in a new land--From back cover.