“… The Chinese are preferred to all others”: nineteenth-century representations of the Chinese in Trinidad and British Guiana

Asian Studies Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-225

  Lee Loy, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84876939426     PISSN: 10357823     EISSN: 14678403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10357820308713375     Document Type: Article

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