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If America Were Really China or How Christopher Columbus Discovered Asia

Gregory Lee 1

National Library of Sweden Collaboration(s)

(23/11/2009)

This text investigates the notion that America may well have been first “discovered” and peopled by migrants from what is now China; and concludes by wondering whether China has not become another America and whether America is now not about to become China; which in any case is another America. Between the introduction and the conclusion; the history of other imagined Americas is examined: the Americas that were not the USA (such as the French Caribbean island of Martinique and Cuba where Chinese coolies were lured and duped with contracts for America (Amérique; A-mei-li-ga); and the USA of the Chinese American which was not quite Utopia – an America from which Chinese were excluded between 1882 and WW2. The Story of Chan/Chen – a scenario for a Chinese American film yet to be made – is sketched out.

1 :	Institut d'Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles (IETT)
	Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III : EA4186

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Héritage culturel et muséologie Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures

Mots Clés : Christina Garcia “Monkey Hunting” – Raphaël Confiant “Case à Chine” – métissage – hybridity – migration: emigration – China – America – Zhu Di – Hui Shen – Christopher Columbus – Shawn Wong “Homebase” – Brian Castro Birds of Passage

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