Los paisanos del puerto : portraits of the Chinese diaspora community in Puntarenas, Costa Rica./ Dorcas Tang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tang, Dorcas.

Damast, Rafael, author, curator.

Contributor:

Taller Puertorriqueño, host institution.

Local Philadelphia: Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Tang, Dorcas--Exhibitions.

Tang, Dorcas.

Chinese--Costa Rica--Puntarenas--Pictorial works.

Chinese.

Chinese diaspora--Pictorial works.

Chinese diaspora.

Physical Description:

58 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Portraits of the Chinese diaspora community in Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Taller Puertorriqueño, 2024.

Summary:

Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖 presents a kaleidoscopic view of the community through portraits, vernacular photo albums, and archival images from the state. Los Paisanos explores a forgotten intersection of Chinese and Latinx identity while seeking to question and redefine our definitions of both. -- adapted from introduction.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Taller Puertorriqueño, November 23, 2023-March 9, 2024.

Includes introductory essay "Three ways of seeing; one way of listening" by Rafael Damast, curator.

ISBN:

9780645784022

0645784028

OCLC:

1429591705