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Retratos de las migraciones chinas a Costa Rica 1855-1960

Four of the researchers from the Project for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Chinese Migrations to Costa Rica –Alonso Rodríguez Chaves and Francisco Li González (UNED), Ronald Soto-Quirós (UMB) and Ricardo Martínez Esquivel (UCR) - have published articles on Chinese migration in Costa Rica in an English-language book edited by the Argentine researcher Pablo Baisotti and released by Cambridge Scholar Publishing on Sep

PREMEHCHi is pleased to announce the addition of six exceptional scholars and students to the team in 2020: Dr. Setsuko Sonoda, from Hyogo University in Japan, Dr. David Ibarra Arana, from the University of Costa Rica, M.B.A. Iris Lam Chen, from the Pacific Branch of the University of Costa Rica, Dr.

• “Achieving Economic Success and Social Mobility: The Chinese Community in Trinidad, British Caribbean before 1949” in the special issue “Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers, Borderlands, and Borders,” Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire, 54(3), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019, 315-344.

Available at:  https://bit.ly/3kerC1p

• “Un precursor de la educación de chinos en Estados Unidos de América: Yung Wing (容闳 Rong Hong, 1828-1912) y la Misión Educativa China (1872-1881)”. RESAP 3 (marzo 2016): 127-149,

Available at:: http://www.palabradeclio.com.mx/src_pdf/resap/res1461789842.pdf

Among the Costa Rican communities of Chinese origin, there are people who with great pride and nostalgia have written chronicles of their ancestors and stories about the various experiences of migration and integration in Costa Rican society. We present these chronicles that evince the success of so many immigrants who lived honestly to offer their families higher living standards, but who also learned to love their surroundings and their people.

In 2015, the Confucius Institute of the UCR organized the visual exhibition “Stories of the Gold Mountain”, a historical exhibition that brought together Otto Apuy Sirias, an ingenious artist and writer, Rocío Con Hong, a strong and independent woman, Isidro Con Wong, a free soul, Man Yu Fong, a sensitive and compassionate spirit, Edgar León, a dedicated and innovative scholar, Karen Olsen Yu, pure