Paisanos Chinos
Subtitle: transpacific politics among Chinese immigrants in Mexico
By: Fredy González
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780520290198; 9780520290204
Subjects: Social conditions; Immigrants; Chinese; History
Description: "Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China--both Nationalist and Communist--as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenge traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood. From celebrating the end of the Second World War alongside their neighbors to carrying out an annual community pilgrimage to the Basílica de Guadalupe, Chinese Mexicans came out of the shadows to refute longstanding caricatures and integrate themselves into Mexican society."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mexico for the Mexicans, China for the Chinese: political upheaval and the anti-Chinese campaigns in postrevolutionary Sonora and Sinaloa; title: Those who remained and those who returned: resistance, migration, and diplomacy during the anti-Chinese campaigns; title: We won't be bullied anymore: the Chinese community in Mexico during the Second World War; title: The golden age of Chinese Mexicans: anti-communist activism under ambassador Feng-shan Ho, 1958-1964; title: The Cold War comes to Chinatown: Chinese Mexicans caught between Beijing and Taipei, 1955-1971; title: A new China, a new community.