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Aug 8, 2007 20:06:29 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Aug 8, 2007 20:06:29 GMT 12
On January 7, 1917, the Government of Western Samoa estimated that there were 100 Samoan-Chinese couples living on its plantations. The Chinese consul in Apia, Lin Jun Chao, estimated that there were 118 afasaina (Sino-Samoan) children and about 1,200 afakasi (part-Europeans) therein. (Field 1984: 31) www.asg-gov.net/026HISTORICALCAL_JANUARY1.htm
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Aug 8, 2007 20:07:55 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Aug 8, 2007 20:07:55 GMT 12
savageminds.org/2005/12/16/chinese-in-the-pacific-a-bibliography/Recently some people on the Anthropology of Oceania listserv that I subscribe to compiled a bibliography of work on the Chinese diaspora in the Pacific. It turns out that we had had this conversation before, but because our archives are so difficult to search we ended up having it again. Since I thought such a list might be interesting for SM readers I am including the bibliography here below the fold¡ªthere¡¯s some interesting stuff in there! Thanks to Rene van der Haar for compiling the bibliography and to everyone who contributed to it: John Barker, Niko Besnier, Neriko Doerr, Haidy Geismar, Alex Golub, Jamon Halvaksz, Paul Heikkila, Robin Hide, Stuart Kirsch, Larry Lake, Lamont Lindstrom, Jacob Love, Margaret Mackenzie, Moana Matthes, Nancy Pollock, Christine Stewart, Jaap Timmer, and Matori Yamamoto.
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Aug 8, 2007 20:09:49 GMT 12
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Aug 8, 2007 20:13:05 GMT 12
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Aug 8, 2007 20:15:21 GMT 12
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www.janesoceania.com/samoa_aboutsamoa/index.htmThis Web site contains information relevant to both independent and American Samoa. For information specific to one or the other, such an history post-1906, government and politics, or economy, see either Facts about Independent Samoa or Facts about American Samoa, also on this Web site. HISTORY Samoa is a divided nation; the history of independent Samoa (previously the Independent State of Western Samoa) and American Samoa was the same until the islands were divided by Europeans at the beginning of the 20th century. There was no need to distinguish between the Samoans until contact with Western powers caused them to head in different
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Aug 8, 2007 20:45:08 GMT 12
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timtufuga.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2F9F22AAE4D5A6F!946.entry Perhaps, the eyes are on Samoa and how they would respond to the Chinese Samoan situation? The Chinese Samoans have assimilated well in Samoan society after over a century of integration. The Germans brought the Chinese Coolies and indentured slaves to work in their plantations. When the New Zealander's arrived they had re-patriated most Chinese back to Canton and Hong Kong whence they came from. The Chinese who won their freedom through either misegenation or buying their freedom, remained in Samoa. Most Chinese would flourish with their business entrepreneural exploits within and without Samoan commercial life, as they become fully entrenched into Samoan society, and by inserting their influences throughout all aspects of Samoan societym even to the very apex of political power, ie, to become cabinet ministers, and even acquiring chiefly titles through marriage alliances. The problem, then, for xenophobic indigenous Samoans seems very obvious, they will have to cut their own limbs in order to excise the Chinese from Samoan society. It is much more difficult for the Samoans to get rid of the Chinese for they are now claiming themselves as being more Samoan then even the real full blooded Samoans. Still, the Tongans and Solomon Islanders are giving the indigenous Samoans some precedents to consider?
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Aug 8, 2007 20:47:27 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Aug 8, 2007 20:47:27 GMT 12
ANTI-CHINESE FERVOUR IN THE SAMOAS
The great and the good turned out the day Samoa buried old Chan Mow. He had been the last ¡°coolie¡± before owning a significant chunk of downtown Apia.
Bought to Samoa by the Germans before World War One, Mow prospered despite a hostile New Zealand regime which even made it illegal for Chinese and Samoans to have sex.
¡°Even now with indentured coolies, there is a very considerable mixture of races.
¡°It appears to me that the complete destruction of the Samoan race would be the lamentable result of British occupation,¡± the first administrator, Robert Logan, said.
Mow's 13 children, 37 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren testified to the potency of legal sex control.
Ultimately, Samoans ended up swallowing the Chinese community which barely survives today in some of the names-and even that disappears as part Chinese Samoans assume chiefly title names.
Anti-Chinese feeling remains though, as opposition politician A'eau Peniamina questioned China's ¡°real motives¡± and warned ¡°to be careful of the Chinese, they could run you out of business as seen elsewhere.¡±
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi took issue: ¡°That is racist and I will not stand for any racism in this Parliament.¡±
In neighbouring American Samoa earlier this year, anti-Asian feeling arose at the inauguration of Governor Togiola Tulafono where the Assemblies of God superintendent Siaosi Mageo urged the deportation of Koreans.
¡°In the 1980s, Samoans took care of the African snail problem by using these strong brooms. Today, we seem to not be able to do anything about the new threat-the Korean snail.¡±
One day Samoans would wake up to find they had Korean politicians and a Korean governor.
¡°Our people will be reduced to nothing. Wake up Samoa, you are still sleeping. It is shameful, utter shameful, that foreigners come here and rule over us.¡±
He overlooked the fact that he lived in ¡°American¡± Samoa.
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Aug 8, 2007 21:49:48 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Aug 8, 2007 21:49:48 GMT 12
The normal population of Western Samoa consists approximately of 500 whites, 1,000 half and other castes, and 36,000 natives; that of Eastern or American Samoa of some 180 whites, 300 half and other castes, and 7,500 natives. The fertile portions of the group are largely under cultivation and are capable in places of extension and of supporting a considerably larger native population. As is the case in many other South Sea groups native cultivations are mostly of cocoanut, but also and extensively of banana, breadfruit, yam and tam; the European plantations consist in the main of cocoanut, cocoa and rubber. The Samoan in his own surroundings makes an indifferent hired man, and in consequence indentured Chinese and Melanesian plantation labour has been introduced into Upolu and to a small extent on Savaii. In August 1914 there were some 2,200 Chinese labourers, mostly on Upolu. The number as been reduced by repatriations to 1520. The Melanesians number 600, mostly Solomon Islanders. and are employed upon the extensive plantations of the Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft of Hamburg and in lighterage work in the roadstead of Apia.
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Aug 8, 2007 21:51:42 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Aug 8, 2007 21:51:42 GMT 12
Amerika Samoa By John Alexander Clinton Gray
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Aug 8, 2007 21:52:20 GMT 12
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Aug 8, 2007 21:57:11 GMT 12
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Aug 8, 2007 21:58:38 GMT 12
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Aug 8, 2007 21:59:26 GMT 12
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Aug 8, 2007 22:02:04 GMT 12
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Aug 11, 2007 19:03:52 GMT 12
Post by NZBC on Aug 11, 2007 19:03:52 GMT 12
Colonial Office, Great Britain, Correspondence with the Government of New Zealand Relating to Chinese Labour in Samoa New Zealand. Governor-General, 1912-1920 (Earl of Liverpool) (London: His Majesty¡¯s Stationery Office, 1920). coc.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/bib/index_e.htm
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