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Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. 230 p., well illustrated. Published at $45.00 [otob: 59] Contents: Preface: California African American Museum / Mar Hollingsworth -- Preface: Chinese American Museum / Steven Y. Wong -- Introduction: Coolies, shopkeepers, and artists: a historical overview of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- Circles and circuits: Chinese Caribbean art / Alexandra Chang -- Artists in exhibition -- A historical context for Chinese migration / Walton Look Lai -- Intersecting trajectories: Chinese and Indian artists in Trinidad in the early twentieth century / Patricia Mohammed -- Present-past: conversations with Maria Lau and Katarina Wong / Julia P. Herzberg -- Caribbean art and Chinese imaginaries / Sean Metzger -- Diasporic affect: circulating art, producing rationality / Lok Siu -- Works in the exhibition -- Acknowledgments. Notes: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Circles and Circuits : Chinese Caribbean Art presented in two parts : History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora at the California African American Museum, September 15, 2017 through February 25, 2018, Contemporary Chinese Caribbean Art at the Chinese American Museum, September 15, 2017 through March 11, 2018." Summary: "Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art" examines artistic production in Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Panama, where large immigrant populations and political, economic, and socio-cultural conditions enabled the development of rich art practices in the Chinese diasporic community. The volume touches on the dynamic interconnections between the Chinese diasporic art communities and intercontinental Caribbean art movements bringing into focus the intimate relationships between the artists and those around them, including those who influenced their work, from peers to mentors and family. Size: Oversize.…