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).
