Abacus and Mah Jong

Sino-Mauritian Settlement and Economic Consolidation

• Author(s): Marina Carter, James Ng Foong Kwong,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 9047429168
  ISBN_13: 9789047429166
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / General , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Business & Economics / Economic History ,

Description:... This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in particular seeks to create a tableau within which the construction of a mythology of migration is set against the realities of negotiation and communication with the wider society.