The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) welcomes Ana Candela, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University to speak and discuss her extensive research on

From Compradors to Hacendados:
Cantonese Merchants In Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific

Embracing the gendered and racialized settler colonial imaginaries that animated Peruvian nation-making, Cantonese merchants deployed new ideas about nature, labor, and technology to position themselves as ideal colonos chinos (Chinese settlers) and overseas Chinese pioneers (xianqiao). Through these activities and imaginaries, Cantonese merchants brought greater coherence to a broader Cantonese Pacific world that linked South China and northern coastal Peru through migration and commerce during an era of expanding industrial capitalism.

Eli Friedman, Chair, ILR School and Director of the CCCI for Spring '21 hosts and moderates. Professor Friedman teaches the course that is linked to this lecture series, ILRIC 4395, Empire of Migrants.

CCCI was established to create a forum for scholars, researchers, and students with contemporary China interests in any aspect of contemporary China. CCCI is a collaborative effort of the East Asia Program, CAPS, and Asian Studies.