Chinese Trade Networks and Material Culture’s Role in Cultural Change and Continuity around the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century
Author(s): Dudley Gardner
Year: 2014
Summary
The Chinese Diaspora around the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century created an interconnection between Chinese Communities around the Pacific in the late 1800’s. This interaction is particularly obvious in the material cultural remains evident in Nineteenth Century Chinese Sites. The material culture left by Chinese immigrants that settled in Fiji, New Zealand, Tahiti, Chile, Panama, Wyoming on the surface appears remarkably similar. The cultural change that occurred is more discrete. This presentation will focus on the subtle cultural changes that are evident in the material culture of the Chinese immigrants in southwestern Wyoming, Fiji, and New Zealand between 1860 and 1911. Using the results of our ongoing surveys, excavations, and research. Particular focus will be paid on how the adaptions to new living conditions outside of southern China but also maintained cultural connections in China.
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Chinese Trade Networks and Material Culture’s Role in Cultural Change and Continuity around the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century. Dudley Gardner. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 2014 ( tDAR id: 436574)
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PaperId(s): SYM-4,04