The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995: a documentary history

Foreword / Bridget Brereton

Guest Foreword / Lu Shulin

The Chinese in the Caribbean region

Possibilities and Prospects of Organised Emigration

Early efforts at importing Chinese labour into the West Indies (1802-1806): the Fortitude experiment in Trinidad

Events leading up to organised emigration from China to the British West Indies (1811-1852)

General picture of emigration from China in the 1850s

Emigration and Adjustment to West Indian Plantations

Beginning of the emigration process (1852-1854)

The emigration years (1859-1866)

Social adjustment to plantation life and society

The Kung Convention and Its Aftermath

The diplomatic impasse over the 1866 Convention, and the last years of the West Indian migration (1866-1884)

The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Community

Life after indenture: indentured servants to traders (1870-1918)

Life in the inter-war period and after: social mobility, assimilation and the new migration (1918-1950)

Biographies of Chinese families (to the 1990s).