Additional Resources

The Counter Cultures Network’s Shopkeepers Story Map (Central America and the Caribbean Maps).

Other Web Resources:

The Chinese Benevolent Association
- The official website of the Chinese Jamaican community organization that “offers humanitarian and social aid as well as works with our community [in Jamaica] to preserve Chinese customs and ethnic identity.”
- Among other things, the website includes interactive maps of ancestral villages (in both Hakka and Mandarin), a spreadsheet of “Jamaican surnames and their ancestral villages,” an overview of Hakka migration history (produced in collaboration with My China Roots), a cemetery database, a bibliography from the CBA Library, downloadable back issues of newsletters and other CBA publications, and a timeline created to mark the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Chinese in Jamaica.
Tsung Tsin Association of Ontario
- The official website of the Ontario chapter of the pan-Hakka association. A quite large percentage of this particular chapter’s membership is Chinese Jamaican.
Chinese Caribbean Association
- The official website of the community organization dedicated to “to assist other Caribbean Chinese in [their] transition and integration into Canadian society.”
Ms. Chin Productions
- The official website of filmmaker Jeanette Kong, whose work “[documents] the historical past of the Chinese-Jamaican diaspora.”
Counter Cultures Network
- This interactive website born out of a 2011 conference held at X University in Toronto: “Counter Cultures: The Space and Place of the Chinese Shop.” The site, like the conference, is aimed at scholars and others interested in “how the shop counter has (and continues) to act as a cultural contact zone throughout the Chinese diaspora.”
- Includes a “Shopkeeper Story Map”.
My China Roots
- The official website of a business that “provides roots and ancestry-related research and travel services for Chinese Overseas.”
- Features several free research tools in beta mode, including a surname database, a village database, a clan book database, a world clan book catalog, and an online roots quest.

History and Culture (Books, Articles, Theses, Dissertations, Etc.):

Anshan, Li. “Survival, Adaptation, and Integration: Origins and Evolution of the Chinese Community in Jamaica (1854-1962).” In The Chinese in the Caribbean, edited by Andrew Wilson, 41-68. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004.
Austin, Heather Hope. “‘But They Were Coming Home, Right?’: Recovering the Lost Voices in a Chinese Jamaican Family Story.” M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 2000.
Bandopadhyay, Amrita. “Romancing Jamaica: The National Imaginary and Jamaican Chinese Women.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 12 (2018): 245–268.
Barnes, Natasha B. “Face of the Nation: Race, Nationalisms, and Identities in Jamaican Beauty Pageants.” In Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century, edited by Consuelo López Springfield, 285-306. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Bohr, Aaron Chang. “Identity in Transition: Chinese Community Associations in Jamaica.” Caribbean Quarterly 50, no. 2 (2004): 44-73.
Bouknight-Davis, Gail. “Chinese Economic Development and Ethnic Identity Formation in Jamaica.” In The Chinese in the Caribbean, edited by Andrew Wilson, 69-90. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004.
—. “A Study of the Chinese Retail Grocery Trade and Its Impact upon Chinese Ethnicity and Sino-Jamaican Relations.” M.A. thesis, Brown University, 1991.
Bryan, Patrick. “The Creolisation of the Chinese Community in Jamaica.” Staff postgraduate seminar, University of the West Indies, 1992.
—. “The Settlement of the Chinese in Jamaica: 1854-c.1970.” Caribbean Quarterly 50, no. 2 (2004): 15-25.
Chan, Anthony B. “Chinese Canadians.” In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Last modified May 14, 2015.
Chan, Arlene. The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013.
—. The Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From Outside to Inside the Circle. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011.
Chen, Ray. The Shopkeepers: Commemorating 150 Years of the Chinese in Jamaica 1854-2004: A Historical Record of Their Arrival and Personal Stories of Their Endeavours and Experiences. Markham, ON: Periwinkle Publishers Inc., 2005.
Chin, Timothy. “Notes on Reggae Music, Diaspora Aesthetics, and Chinese Jamaican Transmigrancy: The Case of VP Records.” Social and Economic Studies 55, no. 1/2 (2006): 92-114.
Frydman, Jason. “Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and the Disjunctures of the Chinese Diaspora: Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 15, no. 1 (2011): 95-109.
Goffe, Tao Leigh. “007 versus the Darker Races: The Black and Yellow Peril in Dr. No.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2015).
Harrison, Sheri-Marie. “‘Yes, Ma’am, Mr. Lowe’: Lau A-Yin and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (2010).
Ho, Jennifer. “Feeling Frank.” Southern Cultures 22, no. 4 (2016): 150-163.
Hogan, David M. “‘And That is Not How Jamaica is’: Cultural Creolization, Optimism, and National Identity in Kerry Young’s Pao.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2015).
Horst, Heather A., and Andrew Gamer. Jamaican Americans (The New Immigrants). New York: Chelsea House, 2006.
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. “Indispensable Enemy or Convenient Scapegoat? A Critical Examination of Sinophobia in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870s to 1930s.” In Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Walton Look Lai and Chee-Beng Tan, 65-102. Boston: Brill, 2010.
Johnson, Joyce. “Representations of the Chinese in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction.” Immigrants & Minorities 16, no. 3 (1997): 36-54.
Jones, Terry-Ann. Jamaican Immigrants in the United States and Canada: Race, Transnationalism, and Social Capital. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008.
Katz, David. Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae. Minneapolis, MN: Jawbone Press, 2012.
Kent, Robert B. “A Diaspora of Chinese Settlement in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity, edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier, 117-138. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.
Labelle, M., Serge Larose, V. Piché, and Channon Oyeniran. “Caribbean Canadians.” Last modified May 3, 2019.
Lacey, Terry. Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70: Integral Security in a Developing Country. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977.
Lee, M. Alexandra. “They Never Looked Back: The Role of the Hakka Women in Jamaica.” Caribbean Quarterly 50, no. 2 (2004): 74-80.
Lee, Patrick A. Canadian Jamaican Chinese, 2000: A Pictorial History of Jamaican Chinese Families Spanning Five Generations. Scarborough, ON: Huntsmill Graphics Ltd., 2000.
—. “Chinese Arrival in Jamaica.” In Essays on the Chinese Diaspora in the Caribbean, edited by Walton Look Lai, 76-84. Self-published, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 2006.
—. Jamaican Chinese Worldwide – One Family. Scarborough, ON: Huntsmill Graphics Ltd., 2004.
Lee, Tom Yin. The Chinese in Jamaica (1957). Kingston: Chung San News, 1957.
—. The Chinese in Jamaica (1963). Kingston: Chung San News, 1963.
Lee-Loy, Anne-Marie. “Chinese Characters in Anglo-Caribbean Literature.” In The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, edited by Michael A. Bucknor and Alison Donnell, 375-382. New York: Routledge, 2011.
—. “The Chinese Shop as Nation Theatre in West Indian Fiction.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2007).
—. “In Another Moment: Exploring Chineseness as Caribbean Diasporic Identity.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2015).
—. “Minding the Gaps: How a Canadian Jamaican Victorianist Wandered into Caribbean Asian America.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 10, no. 2 (2013).
—. “Neutral Aliens: A Nineteenth-Century Tradition of Chinese Representation in Twentieth-Century Caribbean Fiction.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (2010).
—. Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
—. “Unfinished Synthesis: Georg Simmel’s Adventure, Two Chinese Jamaican Migration Narratives, and the Negotiation of Modern Identity.” Caribbean Studies 38, no. 1 (2010): 147-167.
—. “What Does It Mean to Live with the Physiognomy and Cultural Heritage of Chineseness in the Caribbean?” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2015).
—. “World War I’s ‘Exciting Effects’: The Construction of Chineseness and Jamaica’s 1918 Anti-Chinese Riots.” Caribbean Quarterly 61, no. 4 (12, 2015): 40-60, 163.
Lind, Andrew W. “Adjustment Patterns Among the Jamaican Chinese.” Social and Economic Studies 7, no. 2 (1958): 144-64.
Look Lai, Walton. “The Caribbean.” In The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, edited by Lynn Pan, 248-253. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
—. “Chinese Diasporas: An Overview.” Caribbean Quarterly 50, no. 2 (2004): 1-14.
—. “The Chinese Indenture System in the British West Indies and Its Aftermath.” In The Chinese in the Caribbean, edited by Andrew Wilson, 3-24. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004.
—. The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995: A Documentary History. Kingston, Jamaica: The Press University of the West Indies, 1998.
—. “Images of the Chinese in West Indian History.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (2010).
—. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
—. “Two Asian Diasporas and Tropical Migration in the Age of Empire: A Comparative Overview.” In Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Walton Look Lai and Chee-Beng Tan, 35-64. Boston: Brill, 2010.
Lowe, Keith D. “Heaven and Earth-Sustaining Elements in Hakka Tulou.” Sustainability 4, no. 11 (2012): 2795-2802.
—. “Reflections on Chinese Settlement in Jamaica.” In Essays on the Chinese Diaspora in the Caribbean, edited by Walton Look Lai, 85-104. Self-published, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 2006.
Lowenthal, David. West Indian Societies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Ma, Laurence J.C. “Space, Place, and Transnationalism in the Chinese Diaspora.” In The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity, edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier, 1-49. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.
Misrahi-Barak, Judith. “Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature — Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne.” The Journal of Transnational American Studies 4, no. 1 (2012).
Morrissy, Julie. “‘Talking Back’ in Post-Colonial Discourse in Staceyann Chin’s The Other Side of Paradise.“ Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2015).
Morrow, Phyllis. “Chinese Adaptation in Two Jamaican Cities.” Senior honors thesis, Harvard University, 1972.
Osirim, Mary Johnson. “We Toil All the Livelong Day: Women in the English-Speaking Caribbean.” In Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century, edited by Consuelo López Springfield, 41-67. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Parker, Matthew. Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica. New York: Pegasus Books, 2015.
Perea, Tricia. “Finding the Chinese-Jamaican Connection.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois Springfield, 2002.
Powell, Billroy. Settling in Canada: Jamaicans Have a Story to Tell. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris LLC, 2014.
Powell, Patricia. “A Search for Caribbean Masculinities.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 10, no. 2.
Prater, Tzarina T. “Labrish and Mooncakes: The Meeting of Vernaculars in the Work of Easton Lee.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 18, no. 1 (2014): 149-160.
—. “‘Look Pon Likkle Chiney Gal’: Tessanne Chin, The Voice, and Digital Caribbean Subjects.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2015).
—. “‘We are Jamaicans. We are Brothers’: History, Brotherhood, and Independence in Kerry Young’s Pao.“ Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 11, no. 2 (2014).
Raghav, Krish. “Redemption Songs.” Topic Magazine, no 24 (June 2019).
Senior, Oliver. A-Z of Jamaican Heritage. Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann Educational Books (Caribbean), 1988.
—. Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. St. Andrew, Jamaica: Twin Guinep Publishers Ltd., 2003.
Shibata, Yoshiko. “Changing Identities of the Chinese in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Focus on Jamaica.” In The Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora, edited by Chee-Beng Tan, 359-374. New York: Routledge, 2013.
—. “Revisiting Chinese Hybridity: Negotiating Categories and Re-constructing Ethnicity in Contemporary Jamaica — a Preliminary Report.” Caribbean Quarterly 51, no. 1 (2005): 53-75.
Siu, Lok. “Migration Stories: Serial Migration and the Production of Home and Identity in Transnationalism.” In The Chinese in the Caribbean, edited by Andrew Wilson, 159-90. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004.
Skeldon, Ronald. “The Chinese Diaspora or the Migration of Chinese Peoples?” In The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity, edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier, 51-66. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.
Yun, Lisa Li-Shen. “An Afro-Chinese Caribbean: Cultural Cartographies of Contrariness in the Work of Antonio Chuffat Latour, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, and Patricia Powell.” Caribbean Quarterly 50, no. 2 (2004): 26-43.

Memoir:

Chin, Staceyann. The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2009.
Chong, Sherwin Tony. Son of Two Mothers. Second Edition. Self-published, Toronto, 2014.
Lowe, Hannah. Long Time No See: A Memoir of Fathers, Daughters, and Games of Chance. Reading, Berkshire: Periscope, 2017.
Madison, Paula Williams. Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem. New York: Amistad, 2015.
Williams-Wong, Carol. Letters To My Grandchildren: Memoirs of a Dragon Lady – Volume I. Toronto: Resources Supporting Family & Community Legacies Inc., 2014.
—. Letters To My Grandchildren: Memoirs of a Dragon Lady – Volume II. Toronto: Resources Supporting Family & Community Legacies Inc., 2014.

Poetry:

Chin, Staceyann. Crossfire: Collected Poems of Staceyann Chin. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019.
Lee, Easton. Encounters: Poems from a Chinese-Jamaican Experience. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2002.
—. From Behind the Counter: Poems from a Rural Jamaica Experience. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2000.
Lowe, Hannah. Chan. Hexham, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2016.
—. Chick. Hexham, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2013.

Novels:

Powell, Patricia. The Pagoda: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Young, Kerry. Gloria: A Novel. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2013.
—. Pao: A Novel. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2011.
—. Show Me a Mountain. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2017.

Religious Writing:

Kovida, Bhante. An Inquiring Mind’s Journey: Into Wisdom, Compassion, Freedom and Silence. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Sukhi Hotu, 2010.

Children’s Literature:

Lee, Easton. Heritage Call: Ballad for Children of the Dragon. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2001.
—. Kiss Mi Granny: 101 Poems, Stories, and Teachings from All Ah Wi Granny Dem. BalaPress, 2014.
—. Run Big ‘Fraid (…and Other Village Stories). Kingston, Jamaica: BalaPress, 2008.

Plays:

Lee, Easton. The Rope and the Cross: A Dramatization of the Passion Specially Written for Performance in Churches. Kingston: Creative Projects Ltd., 1985.
—. Tarshan Lace and Velvet. Kingston: Self-published, 1973.
—. West Indian Plays for School. Kingston: Jamaica Publishing House, 1979.

Films:

Always Together: Chinese-Jamaicans in Reggae Music (2012), directed by Generoso Fierro.
The Chiney Shop (2012), directed by Jeanette Kong. DVD.
Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China (2014), directed by Jeanette Kong. DVD and online.
Getting to Know Mr. Chin (2019), directed by Juliet Chin. Online.
Half: The Story of a Chinese Jamaican Son (2013), directed by Jeanette Kong. DVD.

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