Fulbright Senior Scholar to Taiwan, Dr. Fredy González, (University of Colorado Boulder/Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) delivered two talks on his research on Chinese overseas in Latin America and around the Pacific Rim.

The scholar, a faculty member at University of Colorado Boulder, delivered one talk at the National University of Singapore concerned his book, “Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico” published in 2017 by the University of California Press.

The book tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. The book depicts the ways in which transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenge traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood.

Dr. González delivered a second talk at the history department of Nanyang Technological University. He talked about his current research on the Chee Kung Tong, an overseas Chinese political party aiming to register as a political party for much of the twentieth century. He is currently affiliated with the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica in Taiwan for this research project.