Paisanos Chinos

Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico

Fredy González

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780520290204
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520964488
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Chinese History
• Index: History

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 World War II 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Language and Usage
• Introduction
• 1. Mexico for the Mexicans, China for the Chinese: Political Upheaval and the Anti-Chinese Campaigns in Postrevolutionary Sonora and Sinaloa
• 2. Those Who Remained and Those Who Returned: Resistance, Migration, and Diplomacy during the Anti-Chinese Campaigns
• 3. We Won’t Be Bullied Anymore: The Chinese Community in Mexico during the Second World War
• 4. The Golden Age of Chinese Mexicans: Anti-Communist Activism under Ambassador Feng-Shan Ho, 1958–1964
• 5. The Cold War Comes to Chinatown: Chinese Mexicans Caught between Beijing and Taipei, 1955–1971
• 6. A New China, a New Community
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index