Article: The Chinese in the Caribbean.(Book review)

The Chinese in the Caribbean. Edited by Andrew Wilson. (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 230. $24.95.)

It may be unreasonable to expect academic prose to match the flair of a fine novel, but this volume, published a few months after the appearance of Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting, seems particularly uninspired when compared to Garcia's multigenerational saga about a Chinese family in Cuba, China, and the United States. The quality of the articles is uneven. The book's introduction is too brief to integrate its various pieces or provide systematic comparisons, and the lack of an index hinders readers from doing so themselves. Nonetheless, the ...

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