tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78107019863443609202024-02-07T10:21:10.647-06:00Chinese in Mexicosparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-11935346802755718262016-10-16T11:11:00.004-05:002016-10-16T11:11:50.443-05:00Ming-dynasty china found in Acapulco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A new archaeological project focusing on the history of the Port of Acapulco has yielded its first treasure: thousands of fragments of a 400-year-old shipment of Ming-dynasty china.</div>
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Described as “export-quality Chinese porcelain,” the porcelain fragments — rice bowls, cups, plates and platters — were found just a meter and a half underground.</div>
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The pieces had arrived aboard the China Galleon and date back to a period of time between 1572 and 1620, when Ming emperor Wanli ruled over China. The discovery was made near Acapulco’s cathedral, in what is known as the city’s Old Quarter.</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-29296605392930328422015-11-03T15:53:00.002-06:002015-11-03T15:57:02.874-06:00Yellow Peril in a Globalized Tijuana:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Yellow Peril in a Globalized Tijuana: The Dog-Meat Incident, NAFTA, and Chinese Immigrant Labor</div>
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In October 2015, while in Tijuana’s Moustache Bar listening to anarcho punk from Mexico City, Pomona, and Riverside, I ran into a familiar Chinese woman in the bar’s patio. This Chinese woman who did not identify herself by name to me, can be seen frequently throughout Tijuana in her daily vending routes, especially in El Centro (downtown) and the Pasaje Rodriguez. Pushing her cart and shouting, “Chun-kuuuun! Chun-kuuun!” she sells chicken, vegetable, and shrimp egg rolls for twenty and thirty pesos each, the equivalent of a dollar-fifty and two dollars. She has even caught the eye of the San Diego Reader, who identified the 31-year-old vendor as Liang Yanfen. Many people coming from the US at the punk show only had dollars and she accepted them as well. The profit the Chinese woman made at the show from receiving dollars that night was surely higher than what she makes in her usual weekday sales. During a brief conversation she told me that her income decreased significantly since April 2015. In her seven-hour walking shifts she sells about thirty chun-kuns a day, a drop from the hundred she would sell daily before April. Aside from sharing with me that her street-vending became increasingly slow, she also presented a few pictures of her baby girl, whom her husband and mother care for while she works Tijuana’s downtown.</div>
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<i>Why business was down and the dog meat story</i></div>
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But, what happened in April, and why did the woman tell my friend and I about the turn of events since? On 7 April 2015, Lo Yen City, a Chinese restaurant located in Tijuana’s Boulevard Fundadores, was shut down due to an anonymous tip provided to local police claiming that the restaurant was selling dog meat. This old trope about Chinese restaurants serving dog or cat meat to patrons is widely known and circulated in Tijuana, as in other places. This time the tip was taken seriously and police raided Lo Yen City because the anonymous tipper also told of a haphazard slaughter of dogs they had witnessed in the restaurants’ backyard. The tip was revealed to be sadly true in the days to come and a dog corpse was found in Lo Yen City’s kitchen. </div>
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<b><a href="https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/yellow-peril-in-a-globalized-tijuana-the-dog-meat-incident-nafta-and-chinese-immigrant-labor/" style="color: #b45f06;" target="_blank">Very good article on much more than dog meat</a><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span> - </b>From Tropics of Meta</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-57885123090156755972015-03-31T08:20:00.000-06:002015-03-31T08:20:08.318-06:00The Chinese-Mexican Cuisine You’ll Find Only Along the Border<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
California Foodways: The Chinese-Mexican Cuisine You’ll Find Only Along the Border</div>
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If you ask people in the city of Mexicali, Mexico, about their most notable regional cuisine, they won’t say street tacos or mole. They’ll say Chinese food. There are as many as 200 Chinese restaurants in the city. North of the border, in Imperial County, the population is mostly Latino, but Chinese restaurants are packed. There are dishes in this region you won’t find anywhere else, and a history behind them that goes back more than 130 years.</div>
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The Salcedo family sits in a coveted booth at the Fortune Garden restaurant in the city of El Centro. The mother and three adult sisters are almost drooling, waiting for their food to show up. They come from Yuma, Arizona — over an hour away — twice a month just to eat here.</div>
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A huge side order arrives, light-yellow deep-fried chilies, a dish I’ve never seen. Then a salt-and-pepper fish, which the Salcedos describe as “Baja-style,” with lots of bell peppers, chilies and onions. But have you ever heard of “Baja-style” dishes in a Chinese restaurant?</div>
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Mayra Salcedo explains, “It’s like a fusion, Mexican ingredients with the Chinese. It’s very different than if you go to any other Chinese restaurant, Americanized Chinese restaurant.”</div>
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Her sister, Marta, carefully mixes Chinese mustard, a little spicy Sriracha and ketchup into a special only-in-Imperial-Valley dipping sauce for barbecue pork.</div>
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“When they order, they don’t say barbecue pork,” says Fortune Garden co-owner Jenissa Zhou. “They say carnitas, carnitas colorada.” That’s “red pork” in Spanish.</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-78425552938928285862015-02-21T16:02:00.000-06:002015-02-21T16:02:58.728-06:00Chinese influence growing in Mexico<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was an unexpected sight in a desert city on the northern border of Mexico. One recent Sunday, children were pouring out of a school classroom into a hall hung with fringed lanterns and calling out to one another in Mandarin and Cantonese. Others were preparing decorations in another room for this month’s Chinese New Year celebrations.</div>
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Outside, restaurants lining the dusty streets displayed signs in Spanish, English and Chinese.</div>
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This is Mexicali, home to the largest Chinese community in Mexico and one of the largest in Latin America. It is the face of a new era in Mexico’s relationship with the emerging superpower across the Pacific Ocean.</div>
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“People say that Mexicali was founded by Chinese about a hundred years ago,” said Anna Yu, 39, a language teacher at the school.</div>
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Yu came to Mexicali from China about 10 years ago to join family who had settled there. “I heard Mexicali was famous for a community like this,” she said.</div>
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Since then, she has married a Mexican, learned Spanish and taught her husband Mandarin.</div>
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Yu is one of an estimated 20,000 people of Chinese descent living in Mexicali. The school where she teaches is housed in the Asociación China de Mexicali and exists to teach language, writing and history to younger generations in an effort to keep Chinese culture alive.</div>
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Chinese immigration to Mexico is rising rapidly. The 4,743 Chinese who arrived in 2013 made up the second-largest group of immigrants after the 12,000-odd Americans who were granted permanent residency.</div>
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Mexico is also seen as a prime destination for Chinese foreign investment, thanks to its abundance of natural resources and proximity to the U.S.</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-78247056482134134472015-02-19T10:45:00.000-06:002015-02-19T10:45:15.920-06:00China a threat to Mexican Artisans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Heirs of ancient techniques and preservers of customs and rituals of the people, artisans are overwhelmed by Asian competition. Wooden toys, guitars, hats, embroidered blouses, figures typical Mexican ceramics, now have the seal made in China and they invade traditional artisans of Michoacan, Jalisco, Chiapas, Mexico State, Puebla, Campeche, Guerrero, even the shopping area Villa de Guadalupe.</div>
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There is a decline of artisans from lack of support, have made us a decorative and promotional object; extinguiéndonos are said Socorro Oropeza, leader of the National Union of Producers Craft Coyolxauhqui, which groups 15 000 artisans from 23 entities, mostly peasants without land.</div>
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He said that 18 small companies have disappeared that were affiliated for 12 years of fighting for the preservation of this activity, and-most women who continue to exceed 45 years engaged in other activities because "there is no market for handicrafts. Shoppers want low prices, do not care quality: the Mexican flag, made in China, costs 2.50 pesos and hundreds of small shops have disappeared in the center of the capital and the state of Mexico</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-68188737912168513482015-02-03T12:36:00.000-06:002015-02-04T09:08:54.614-06:00Exhibit remembers Chinese massacre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
300 immigrants were killed in Torreón in 1911 because of racial intolerance</div>
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Mexico has dealt a couple of blows to the Chinese in the past few months, but it wasn’t the first time.</div>
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It was in May 1911 that the army massacred at least 300 Chinese immigrants in Torreón — half the Chinese population, a slaughter that has since been blamed on racial intolerance and hatred.</div>
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Like some other Mexican massacres, it was also covered up.</div>
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But an uncovering is taking place this week in Mexico City in the form of an exhibition entitled “303: the Chinese massacre in Torreón,” a collection of photos, documents and video that focus on a historical event that doesn’t appear in any history texts.</div>
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It took place during the height of the revolution, when Francisco Madero’s army took control of the city. By three o’clock in the afternoon of May 15 the streets were covered in bodies.</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-19314861621063305912013-11-04T10:28:00.000-06:002013-11-04T10:28:23.663-06:00Mexican Universities Recruiting Students in China<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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BEIJING – Three Mexican universities are participating in the China Education Expo, where higher education institutions from about 30 countries are competing to attract students from China eager to learn languages and study abroad.</div>
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The Universidad de Colima, Universidad Veracruzana and Universidad de las Americas Puebla sent representatives to the expo, which is being held at its largest venue ever, the China Exhibition Center, located near the Olympic zone.</div>
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Thousands of young people have flocked to the expo, seeking to learn about foreign educational offerings.</div>
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“The attendance by students has surpassed our expectations,” said Universidad de Colima international outreach coordinator, Genoveva Amador.</div>
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In the last years of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, 30,000 Chinese working class immigrants came to Mexico fleeing poverty and political instability, from southern China (Canton) or the United States. In the US, the Chinese were hired by various U.S. companies to build railroads and work in mining and agriculture. As less work was needed Americans began to reject them, until in 1904 was issued a law banning their entry into that country, so that they fled into Mexico, especially in Baja California. It is estimated that the number of Chinese laborers in that area had fluctuated between seven and eight thousand. At that time the presence and influence of Chinese was so great Mexicali was called "the little Canton" and the neighborhood of the old commercial center of the city is still known as "chinoiserie". </div>
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Currently residing in the capital some 9000 Chinese, and nationwide totaling approximately 14,000 overseas Chinese and 40,000 Mexicans of Chinese origin, mainly located in Mexico City, Tijuana, Mexicali and in the state of Chiapas. </div>
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Mami: My Grandmother’s Journey is the unconventional story of a Chinese woman in the southern border city of Tapachula in Mexico in the 20th century. Her arranged marriage, her escape from the Japanese Army, her life in a country so distant and so different from her own, her struggles and successes, her internal conflicts. It is a story that interweaves the past and present of three generations living under one roof filled with cultural clashes between Chinese and Mexican traditions.</div>
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<a href="http://www.rebecalau.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">Rebeca Lau</span></strong></a>sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-7831600695637548762013-02-07T18:30:00.002-06:002013-02-07T18:30:44.030-06:00Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In this photo taken Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, Juan Chiu Trujillo, center, a Chinese Mexican poses with his sons; Juan Chiu Chan, left, and Ignacio Chiu Chan, during an interview in Mexico City. Chiu who was born in Mexico, was among thousands of Chinese Mexicans expelled when Mexico erupted into xenophobia fueled by the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. Chiu returned in 1960, along with 300 other Chinese-Mexicans, after President Adolfo Lopez Mateos paid for their travel expenses and decreed that they would be legally allowed to live in Mexico. Dozens of those Chinese-Mexicans and their descendants gather Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, at a Chinese restaurant in central Mexico City to celebrate the anniversary of their return. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)</div>
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-mexicans-celebrate-repatriation-mexico-064302534.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico - article</span></strong></a>sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-68719179176388187882012-01-07T15:32:00.000-06:002012-01-07T15:32:35.051-06:00Chinese food in Mexico City<div style="text-align: justify;">
I found this on a <a href="http://goodfoodmexicocity.blogspot.com/2012/01/chinese-new-year-asian-bay.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Food in Mexico City Blog</span></a> and it makes me want to go. What I miss in small coastal towns is a variety of food options. Well this should get you started if you are in the "big city".</div>
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The young chef, Luís Alfonso Chiu is the son of immigrants from Canton. He grew up in the deco/colonial house, now converted into the restaurant. But the family feeling continues. As chef Chiu presides over the kitchen or mingles with clients his proud parents, Alfonso and Patricia, quietly run the ship. </div>
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Chef Luís recounted how his grandparents, who arrived here during the Mexican revolution, had been ‘asked to leave’ during the growing anti-Chinese movement of the ‘20’s and ‘30’s (astute business people, the Chinese were resented by the Mexican upper classes). His parents were born in China but the lure of Mexico remained and they immigrated--lucky for us. The chef grew up here, is as Mexican as mole, but loved the food of his ancestors, so he went back to Canton and Shanghai to study cooking. </div>
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Tel. 5553-4582sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-77426215626037272292011-01-16T10:09:00.001-06:002011-01-16T10:15:14.968-06:00The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940<b>History of Chinese in Mexico documented for first time in English-language book.</b><br />
By Letisia Marquez December 16, 2010<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The little known history of the Chinese in Mexico — one that is marked by a bloody massacre and a successful effort to shut down Chinese-owned businesses in one Mexican state — is documented for the first time in an English-language book authored by a UCLA professor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“There’s this rich history of the Chinese in Mexico that’s been forgotten for the most part,” said Robert Chao Romero, assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies. “It’s been forgotten because it’s a dark chapter in Mexican history, unfortunately.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The book, titled “The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940” (University of Arizona Press, 2010) notes that Chinese migration to Mexico dates back to the 1600s when Spanish trading ships sailed between Mexico and the Philippines. Small numbers of Chinese immigrants entered colonial Mexico as personal servants of Spanish merchants.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some Chinese stayed in Mexico to earn their living as tradesmen, barbers and shopkeepers, and often resided in segregated quarters in the periphery of large cities, Romero said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wide-scale migration to “Big Lusong,” as the Chinese referred to Mexico, did not occur until much later, according to Romero. About 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of them with the intent of trying to gain illegal entry into the U.S., which had barred Chinese immigrants in 1882.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(At the time U.S. authorities did not arrest Mexican workers trying to cross the border for higher wages because there were no laws in existence that barred or even limited Mexican immigration to the United States, Romero noted.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1899, the Mexican government also signed a treaty with China to recruit Chinese to work in agriculture in the northern border areas, Romero said. By the 1920s, Chinese immigrants who had settled in Mexico were the second largest immigrant group in the nation — after Spanish immigrants — with a population of 26,000, Romero said. They resided in every Mexican state except for Tlaxcala.</div><br />
The rest of the <a target="_blank" href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/history-of-chinese-in-mexico-documented-179351.aspx"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Original UCLA Article</span></strong></a>sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-22245809883839803832010-09-20T18:09:00.000-05:002010-09-20T18:09:14.511-05:00Chinesca Culture Offering Found in Tepic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIZTv_9MnHenDO5fHVas5T1I91_6m-UGDhsMZ63z5NKJ43k4Ul79oBLzNMCbECpMCqhyxHZbSkySuS0b9A2Ue6lEj43puoPnCLy6Mdr0lhWI-dy0PqgEU_auTmePjMQ9BakRofSL_5nNF/s1600/chinesca.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" qx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIZTv_9MnHenDO5fHVas5T1I91_6m-UGDhsMZ63z5NKJ43k4Ul79oBLzNMCbECpMCqhyxHZbSkySuS0b9A2Ue6lEj43puoPnCLy6Mdr0lhWI-dy0PqgEU_auTmePjMQ9BakRofSL_5nNF/s400/chinesca.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">MEXICO CITY.- A funerary offering of Chinesca culture integrated by 8 ceramic pieces created between 200 BC and 400 AD was found in Tepic municipality, at Nayarit Mexican state. This is the first conjunct of Chinesca objects located in their original place in all Western Mexico. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Six anthropomorphic figures and 2 vessels were found; based on the way they were placed, a reduced space in a half-moon shape, it can be deduced it was part of a shaft tomb. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) specialists, the finding represents an exceptional opportunity to explore shaft tombs of Chinesca affiliation, since these contexts had not been analyzed in situ before. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The distinctive characteristics of Chinesca culture are the oriental features of the figure faces, as well as its pottery, which present a buff colored coating and with fine black and red lines. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Armando Santa Cruz Ruiz, director of Nayarit INAH Center, and archaeologist Mauricio Garduño, informed that the discovery took place at 14 de Marzo locality, where houses are being constructed. Tepic municipal president, Roberto Sandoval Castañeda, gave notice to the Institute so the finding could be verified. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After positively dating the more than 1,600 years old objects, INAH began the salvage and moved the objects to Nayarit INAH Center for their register and restoration. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mauricio Garduño, responsible of archaeological excavation, detailed that nuclear zone of Chinesca culture was settled in Nayarit high plateau valleys, in Tepic and Compostela, from where it diffused to other regions. “It was a highly developed culture for it time (200 BC to 400 AD), with an advanced agriculture, handcraft production and important commercial activity with groups at the coast, with whom exchanged obsidian and shell. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Chinesca culture controlled important raw material deposits, such as in Navajas Volcano, where obsidian of excellent quality was found”. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The INAH archaeologist informed that evidence of this culture has been found at Cañon de Bolaños, Jalisco. Material of the same affiliation has been recovered as well in Northwestern Coast that corresponds to the first 2 centuries of the Common Era. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most relevant funerary architecture in Prehispanic Western Mexico is represented by shaft tombs, underground funerary complexes integrated by crypts with vertical shafts, with rich offerings. “At this kind of Prehispanic tombs, offerings were placed around the shaft, in a half moon shape”. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally, INAH will continue doing probing wells in a 2,500 square meters area with the aim of recovering the most information possible, concluded Garduño. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=37049&int_modo=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>Art Daily Article</strong></span></a></div>sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-60418093304247732022010-08-30T17:49:00.003-05:002010-08-30T18:10:16.491-05:00The Chinese Clock<div style="text-align: justify;">This monolithic timepiece, on Calle Bucareli in the Colonia Juarez in Mexico City, is known as “the Chinese clock.” It is a replica of one that was given as a gift to the Mexican people by the Emperor of China in 1910, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. Anti-Chinese hooligans destroyed it in 1913. The replacement was set in its place in 1921. <br />
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From <a href="http://davidlida.com/?p=1034" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">David Lida - The Chinese are coming</span></strong></a>sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-72762217876595144852010-06-07T16:12:00.004-05:002010-06-07T16:16:47.538-05:00Learning Chinese in Mexico<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoMwbEB-zbkI_dJFNzmjav6Jxou1aPu6HHIOAul5nI62u1WFUuTQv5KeRaCOWVy6lVkeabODD5a5A3vtHKzxbud1zkvG_mk2n4__SVwD_4TyRkr9FE8jV0spzjE4QbRSNCcepPXPlKSgW/s1600/chinese-in-mexico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoMwbEB-zbkI_dJFNzmjav6Jxou1aPu6HHIOAul5nI62u1WFUuTQv5KeRaCOWVy6lVkeabODD5a5A3vtHKzxbud1zkvG_mk2n4__SVwD_4TyRkr9FE8jV0spzjE4QbRSNCcepPXPlKSgW/s200/chinese-in-mexico.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Damaris De Luna Sanchez, right, and a schoolmate study Chinese at Pedro Garcia Rojas elementary in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Students take five hours a week of Mandarin, four hours a week of English. (Aguascalientes / June 6, 2010)</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As China swiftly expands its reach across Latin America, a pilot program in Aguascalientes aims to introduce students to the Mandarin language and make them more competitive in the job market.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Reporting from Aguascalientes, Mexico — Wo jiao Alberto.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alberto and Maribel, sixth-graders at the Pedro Garcia Rojas elementary school here in central Mexico, introduce themselves to each other in Mandarin Chinese. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Their class also recites numbers, clothing items and weather conditions in a language that, to them, is about as foreign as it gets.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some, like Damaris De Luna Sanchez, 11, move their hands the way a conductor directs an orchestra, slicing through the air to help them reach the proper intonations, the staccato flats and singsong vowelish sounds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Their enthusiastic teacher, Gerardo Saucedo, is not Chinese nor has he ever traveled to China, but he has long been fascinated by its language and use of stylized characters as an alphabet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Zai dong tian ni chuan shen me?" he asks his uniformed students, dancing down the aisle among girls in plaid skirts and knee socks, and boys in blue sweaters. "What do you wear in winter?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sight of youngsters speaking Chinese in the Mexican heartland is unusual, to say the least. Parents told that pupils as young as 9 would be taught Mandarin had been skeptical. Wouldn't French or Italian (Romance languages closer to Spanish) make more sense? some wondered.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Savvy Mexican politicians have other ideas. State authorities launched the pilot language program in Aguascalientes, a working-class city, in hopes of jumping on the Chinese bandwagon. As China swiftly expands its reach across Latin America, Mexico is experiencing a flurry of new Chinese investments in traditional targets like nickel mines and in newer areas like car-part factories and electronics.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For many years, Mexico had lagged behind other big Latin economies, like Brazil and Chile, which saw China displace the United States as their principal trading partner. China spent an estimated $100 billion in Latin America in 2008, but Mexico had only a small piece of it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Attitudes of xenophobia dating to the early 20th century, when Chinese workers came to the country to build the railroads, continue to inform Mexico's restrictive immigration policies for Asians, said Sergio Martinez of the Mexican-Chinese Studies Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. On top of that, Mexico's notorious bureaucracy and the reluctance of many Mexican companies to compete with cheap Chinese products have slowed the expansion of trade relations.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez presided over the opening of the Mexico pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on May 1, highlighting the key issues of sustainability and cooperation, in keeping with the event’s optimistic theme of “Better City. Better Life.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have come to share our vision with the world, recognize the problems that humanity has and offer Jalisco’s and Mexico’s solutions to these problems,” Gonzalez said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Several Mexican states have been allocated time slots to promote themselves at the Mexican pavilion. Jalisco (often said to be the most typical of the country’s states) kicked off the ball in traditional style to the sound of mariachi music and the elegant movement of folkloric dancers. This privilege was given to Jalisco because of its sister-state agreement with the province of Shanghai.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Pavilion Features</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Mexico Pavilion features a Kite Forest combining colorful kites and green grass, representing the ideas of future urban life as advocated by Mexico. The site will mostly be an open area with an exterior grass slope that creates a large green public space, which embodies ecology, environment protection and peace. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Journey through the History of Mexico</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The pavilion will showcase the past, present and future of Mexico, which can also be interpreted as the history, culture and dream. In the "past" area, three large screens will display Mexico's history and ancient civilization; the current situation of major Mexican cities will be introduced in the "present" area; the "future" area, namely the "kite forest area" on the green slope, will show Mexico's main projects of sustainable development via the interactive touch-screens. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Authentic Mexican Cuisine and Mexican Handicrafts</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition a restaurant covering an area of 400 square meters will be open in the pavilion. Visitors can enjoy authentic Mexican cuisine, including tacos, burritos, chili, tequila, among others. Apart from that, there will also be a store where traditional Mexican handicrafts can be found. </div><br />
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Chinese migrants know the United States as "Gold Mountain". That name was coined in the Gold Rush, but it is still used today - by the hundreds of Chinese trying to gain entry to the US using increasingly unsafe methods.</div>
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Many take dangerous routes to reach the US, but that does little to discourage increasing numbers of Chinese from risking it all across the Mexican border to get here.</div>
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Mike Kirsch reports from the US-Mexico border in Arizona in the latest of Al Jazeera's special reports on immigration in America</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-15397248021687434532010-03-13T20:17:00.004-06:002010-03-14T07:27:25.108-06:00Canadian Chinese in Chapala<div style="text-align: justify;">This post is not history - this is now. I wish I knew a little more about Betty but maybe you can find out on her Blog. She is Canadian Chinese living in Chapala and seems to be having a good time of it with her family. Here's a video of her son singing a simple English/Spanish lesson.</div><br />
Here are the lyrics in case you want to sing along.<br />
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Pollito Chicken,<br />
Gallina Hen,<br />
Ventana Window,<br />
Puerta Door,<br />
Mesa Table,<br />
Silla Chair,<br />
Lapiz Pencil,<br />
Pluma Pen <br />
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<a href="http://ourboysinmx.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong><em>And here's her Blog</em></strong></a></center><br />
Chapala Jalisco Mexicosparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-87281920335608329922010-01-09T10:00:00.001-06:002016-08-26T12:12:04.126-05:00Chinesca<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Chinesca" is an artful documentary about the Chinese heritage of Mexicali made by Marco Vera and Rafael Velarde. It was presented as part of "..ricorso .." by Armando Rascon.</div>
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Over much of the 17th century, the Plaza became overrun with market stalls. After a mob burned the Viceregal Palace in the 1690s, the Plaza was completely cleared to make way for the “Parian”, a set of shops set in the southwest corner of the Plaza used to warehouse and sell products brought by galleons from Europe and Asia. This was opened in 1703. </div>
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On the 4th and 5th of December 1826, Lorenzo de Zavala and General Jose Maria Lobato led a mob of soldiers, artisans, and hooligans attacking the Parian. They robbed and burned it shouting “Death to the Spaniards!” “Long live Lobato and those with fury!” A number of merchants died and most were ruined. President Santa Anna finally had the Parian demolished in 1843. This left the Plaza bare again.</div>
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The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) is proud to announce the opening of a new historical exhibit entitled "Nao de China: The Manila Trade, 1565 – 1815" on Saturday, November 8 in the Center's History & Literary Arts building. The NHCC is located at 1701 4th St. SW on the corner of 4th St. and Bridge Blvd. The opening will take place at 2 pm, is free to the public and authentic Filipino and Mexican refreshments and Filipino entertainment will be provided. In attendance to inaugurate the exhibit will be the Consul General of Mexico in Albuquerque, the Honorable Gustavo de Unanue Aguirre and the Consul General of the Philippines in Los Angeles, the Honorable Mary Jo Bernardo de Aragón.</div>
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From 1565 to approximately 1815 there existed a lucrative trade between Spanish merchants and traders in the Philippine Islands using Acapulco and Veracruz ports in Mexico as transshipment points and using Guam as a rest stop on the long voyage across the sea. Since the Philippines had been a center of trade between China and other Asian countries like Siam and India for hundreds of years, even including major trade with Islamic peoples, the Spanish encountered many items that contained different cultural accoutrements. Thus, the ships that sailed from Spain to Veracruz then from Acapulco to the Philippine archipelago brought back to Mexico items of trade, as well as people, which over time became a part of the Mexican folklore tradition.</div>
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This exhibit examines some of these Mexican traditions and traces them to the trade that took place with the Philippines, especially through the port of Manila. Such Mexican icons as la China poblana, majólica pottery, papel de china, etc. are examined and their roots traced to the Manila trade which employed large galleon ships called "Naos" to transport merchandise and people. Thus, the title: "Nao de China: The Manila Trade, 1565 – 1815." This exhibit will remain on view through May 30, 2009 and will be accompanied by a series of lectures and public presentations that will be announced at a later date.</div>
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sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-85567384739712125432009-06-23T12:31:00.005-05:002009-07-17T08:13:23.313-05:00When Chinese were smuggled into El Paso<div align="justify">Leon Metz: When Chinese were smuggled into city from Mexico<br />Leon Metz / Special to the Times<br />Posted: 06/22/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT<br /><br /><br />Nowadays, if one wanders through Concordia Cemetery, as I do on occasions, there is one site that we can observe through the iron gate -- but can't enter. And I'm referring to the Chinese Cemetery section.<br /><br />This area is one of the best-kept secrets in the city, a national historic treasure, and yet one of the least-known and least-visited historical areas in El Paso.<br /><br />We know when the first Chinese arrived, and that would have been 1881 with the arrival of the first railroad in El Paso. The Chinese helped build that railroad, but after reaching the city, they were stranded -- and subsequently deported.<br /><br />So since the Chinese were denied legal entry into this country, they commenced slipping in by way of Mexico, and thereafter walked north.<br /><br />During this period a resident Mexican could cross north across the international line with no delays and no papers. Hence, the initial U.S. Border Patrol arose. In popular and local parlance, they were usually referred to as "Chinese Immigration Agents."<br /><br />But a few Chinese were already here. By 1890, El Paso had an official population of 11,120 residents and 312 were Chinese.<br /><br />Most of the Chinese lived south of Overland Street, usually in hotels, restaurants, laundries, alleys or in railroad cars where they were often employed. And since most Chinese were men, such things as Chinese family units were essentially nonexistent.<br /><br />A Chinese information bureau arose at 200 S. St. Louis Street.<br /><br />Chinese merchandise stores, like American general stores, were usually placed where people could gather, exchange gossip, discuss news and hold meetings. In 1889, the City Council minutes mentioned an El Paso population of 11,069 residents, of which 7,846 were anglos, 2,069 were Hispanic, 810 were black, and 344 were Chinese. During that same year, four Chinese grocery stores opened in the city. </div><div align="justify"><br />By 1892, the Chinese population had risen to 500, practically all illegally entering the U.S. by way of Juárez. Although some did not remain for any length of time, a great majority of them found El Paso employment with the railroads, or in restaurants, saloons and so forth.<br /><br />During that same year, El Paso had 15 laundries, 13 of which were Chinese. Twelve Chinese druggists easily found employment. A Baptist Chinese mission opened at 412 San Antonio Street.<br /><br />And before long, the Chinese had one particular dominant monopoly in town, the laundry business. During 1889, El Paso sported 18 laundries, all but one operated by the Chinese.<br /><br />But during this period of years, 1870-1910, stories constantly and steadily arose of tunnels under the Rio Grande, and tunnels meandering through various areas and regions, houses and businesses. The only reason for these tunnels was to smuggle Chinese into the country.<br /><br />Therefore, there used to be -- and perhaps still is -- a home in Sunset Heights known as the "Turtle House." It allegedly has a tunnel leading down and under the city, particularly under the Downtown subdivision of Chihuahuita, and by some a accounts, under the Rio Grande.<br /><br />I've been in the Turtle House (in the presence of owners, of course), and have opened that entrance door and saw what looked like a totally black tunnel. I was offered an opportunity to crawl inside, but I chickened out.<br /><br />Up until that particular instant, I never fully realized that I was claustrophobic. So I lost my chance, perhaps, of resolving one of the most interesting and intriguing historical puzzles and mysteries regarding El Paso's remarkable and historic past.<br /><br />Leon Metz, an El Paso historian, writes often for the El Paso Times. E-mail: cmetz48888@aol.com<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12660284">El Paso Times article</a> </div>sparks_mexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00164875979449223368noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810701986344360920.post-85077908748364836132008-11-05T15:21:00.006-06:002010-01-06T15:35:20.050-06:00From Manila to Mexico<div align="justify">GEMS OF HISTORY<br />
From Manila to Mexico<br />
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When people talk about the galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco (1565 to 1815), much attention is placed on the trade itself, its economic significance, and, to a certain degree, its cultural influence. Little attention is given to the movement of people, especially of the ethnic Chinese.<br />
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In volume 2 of the five-volume work entitled Five Thousand Years of History of China and Foreign Cultural Exchange from China’s World Knowledge Publishing House, section six of chapter 10 narrates the settlement of the Chinese in Latin America.<br />
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According to documents that date back to around the late 16th century and first half of the 17th century, Chinese merchants, artisans, sailors and helpers arrived in Mexico and Peru to do business or work there, through the Manila galleon trade.<br />
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Since Spanish colonizers monopolized the trade between the Philippines and Mexico, the Chinese who went to Latin America had to pass through Manila. Consequently, they were called Manila Chinese. They were mostly merchants, serfs and sailors.<br />
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In the late 16th century, in order to develop and exploit Latin America, the Spanish colonizers ordered and allowed Chinese artisans to enter Latin America. Thus, thousands of Chinese artisans, including weavers, tailors, carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, jewelry smiths and barbers were continuously transferred from Manila to work there.<br />
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Not only that, as it was said that there were some Chinese sailors on the Manila galleon who could not bear slave labor and the torture they suffered from the Spanish colonizers. Thus, they often escaped when the galleon reached the Acapulco port and settled down across Latin America. It was estimated that in the middle of the 17th century, Manila Chinese who moved to the Americas were about 5,000 to 6,000.<br />
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Persecution also encouraged the Chinese to catch the galleon out of Manila. There were periodic mass expulsions, plus five massacres during the 17th and 18th centuries when 70,000 to 80,000 Chinese were killed.<br />
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This is the role played by Manila in the history of the Chinese in Latin America. It is safe to say that the forefathers of the Chinese in Latin America, especially those in Mexico, were Chinese from the Philippines or the Manila Chinese.<br />
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