THE UNTOLD STORY OF CHINESE-HAITIANS
http://kreyolicious.com/ Dimanche, 10 Mai, 2015 - 10:30 Chinese presence in the Caribbean is concentrated mostly in Jamaica, but did you know that at one point there was a trickle of immigration from China into Haiti? With last names like Wu, Wah, Wawa, Fung, Fong-Ging, Fungcap, the first known Chinese families arrived in Haiti in the late 1890s, fleeing crumbling dynasties. Guy Fong-Ging, whose father King Fong-Ging adopted Haiti as his permanent home, says: “Fong Sam, Fong Wong, They came in groups. They were all [mostly] from the same family.” Some like Soud Fungcap arrived in Haiti in...
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