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Name: Dr. Walton Look Lai
Resident Country/Region: Trinidad & Tobago
Affiliated Institute: University of the West Indies
Position: Lecturer, History Department
Geographic Focuses: General
Fields of Interest: Community and Society , Culture , Economy , Ethnic Relations , History , Qiaoxiang , Politics , Relations with China
Contact Information: Mail Address: History Department, U.W.I., St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
Telephone: (868) 662-2002 ext. 2022
E-Mail:laiw@s-mail.com
Academic Achievements:

1. Education and Career

2. Honors

3. Publications

Education and Career

PhD New York University 1991
M.Phil New York University 1988
M.A. Oxford University 1968
B.A. Oxford University 1964
Barrister Hon. Society of Middle Temple, London 1967
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Honors


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Publications

Books

Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies 1838-1918. Johns Hopkins University Press 1993, with an introduction by Sidney Mintz
[Publication funded by National Endowment of the Humanities grant]

[Reissued as paperback 2003]


The Chinese in the West Indies 1806-1995: A Documentary History.
The Press University of the West Indies, 1998, with an introduction by Bridget Brereton.
[Research funded by Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship]


Recent Articles

“Images of the Chinese in West Indian History”, in Wanni Anderson and Robert Lee, eds, Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas, Rutgers University Press 2005.

“The origin of the Chinese Indenture System in the West Indies and its aftermath”, in Andrew Wilson, ed., “The Chinese in the Caribbean”, Marcus Weiner, October 2004

“Asian Contract and Free Migrations to the Americas”, in David Eltis, ed., Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives, Stanford University Press, May 2002.

“Communities: The Chinese in the Caribbean.” In The Encyclopedia of the Chinese
Overseas, edited by Lynn Pan, 248-253. Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, and
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

"Chinese Diasporas: an Overview", in Caribbrean Quarterly, July 2004 [Special Issue to mark the 150th Year of Chinese Arrival to Jamaica, edited by Victor Chang]
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