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In this section we mapped the business ran by Chinese immigrants around the 1950s. The maps highlight not only some communities of the Costa Rican Chinese imaginary, but also a tendency to gather around the heart of each town, near the central park, the Catholic church or on the main street or avenue.

• Acón Chan, Lai Sai. “Migraciones de chinos a Costa Rica y su consecuente proceso de asimilación desde 1855”. Revista Estudios 33 (diciembre 2016):706-724. 

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• “Wa-Sion: una ventana a la reconfiguración de las sociedades portuarias centroamericanas (1909-1930)”. Con la colaboración de Andrey Araya Arias. En América Latina y el Caribe - China. Historia, Cultura y Aprendizaje del Chino 2015. Editado por Liljana Arsovska. México DF: Red Académica de América Latina y el Caribe sobre China y Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015, 47-62

• “Percepciones y actitudes políticas con respecto a la minoría china en Costa Rica: 1897-1911”. Historia y Espacio [Universidad del Valle, Colombia] 5, no. 32 (enero-junio 2009): 165-223.

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http://bit.ly/2IVQjiH

PREMEHCHI has a database of more than 1500 photographs collected through the descendants of Chinese immigrants who have preserved them for generations, field trips to communities with an important material legacy, and documentary evidence found in a variety of printed sources, thus attesting to the survival of these migrants in Costa Rica, their contributions to the Costa Rican identity and their s

A partir del 2015, con la celebración del 160 aniversario de la llegada de los chinos a Costa Rica, comienza a gestarse un cambio en la producción académica sobre las migraciones chinas a Costa Rica a través de una alianza entre el Instituto Confucio de la Universidad de Costa Rica y la Cátedra de Historia de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia.

Just like many countries in the world today, Costa Rica is a nation of great cultural and ethnic diversity. A plurality that has been legitimized in the Political Constitution. Immigrants from different latitudes and ethnic backgrounds arrived to the country shortly after it became a sovereign state and contributed to expand the multi-ethnic and cultural horizon of a colonial society largely based on indigenous, Spanish and African roots.