Activity: Illustrated readings
Series: Samaan Tree Series
Title: Chinese migration to British Guiana
Date: Tuesday 28th January 2025
Time: NOON Guyana, 11AM NY, 4PM UK
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lPwCkiElTf-WeptbUk0HhA
You are warmly invited to join us for our first Samaan Tree session in 2025.
SERIES: Samaan Tree Series
TITLE: Chinese Migration to British Guiana: the early years
DATE: Tuesday 28th January 2025
TIME: Midday (Guyana), 11.00 AM NY, 4.00 PM UK
PLATFORM: Zoom
REGISTER: Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lPwCkiElTf-WeptbUk0HhA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
This session, to be held on the eve of the Chinese New Year, will feature a short illustrated reading about the first Chinese emigrants to British Guiana (as it then was). The readings draw mainly, but not exclusively, on the work of Cecil Clementi, a Colonial official and author of The Chinese in British Guiana. They balance Clementi’s account with an outline of the upheaval caused by the Opium Wars and conclude with a pen-portrait of a Chinese immigrant who prospered in the colony.
Please share details of the session with Guyanese of Chinese heritage who may wish to attend. It takes a minute to register on Zoom. Please make a note of the start time for your time-zone.