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Jamaican people of Chinese origin and their descendants. Pages in category "Jamaican people of Chinese descent" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Assimilation has taken place through generations and few Chinese Jamaicans can speak Chinese today; most of them speak English or Jamaican Patois as their first language. The vast majority have anglicized given names and many have Chinese surnames. The Chinese food culture has survived to a large degree among this group of people.
Chinese immigration to Cuba started in 1847 when Cantonese low-wage workers were brought to work in the sugar fields, bringing their native Chinese folk religion with them. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were brought in from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan during the following decades to replace and / or work alongside African slaves. After ...
Pages in category "Chinese people of Jamaican descent" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Jamaicans and their descendants of Asian origin ... out of 7 total. C. Jamaican people of Chinese descent (46 P) I. Jamaican people of Indian descent (1 C, 14 P)
Major Kurt Lee, first Chinese American Marine Corps officer, United States; Lau Sing Kee, first Chinese American to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, United States; Lieutenant General Melvyn Ong, Singapore; Brigadier General Teddy Jusuf (Him Tek Ji), Indonesia; General Vicente Lim, Philippines; Lieutenant General Winston Choo Wee ...
Chanel Miller – artist and author of Know My Name; Anchee Min (閔安琪) – author, Red Azalea; Celeste Ng (伍綺詩) – writer, novelist; Lisa See – writer; Sui Sin Far (水仙花) – late 19th/early 20th century Chinese-English American author and journalist; Arthur Sze - poet; Mai-mai Sze - writer and artist
Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War; Jean Springer, Jamaican mathematics professor; Garth Taylor, Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian; Manley West, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed a treatment for glaucoma