Francisco Y. Chen López
The literary representation of Chinese immigrants derives from nineteenth-century Spanish American modernismo, in which Caribbean authors such a s Julián del Casal (1863-1893) w r ite f reely on the fa sci nation or igi nated f rom the distance between Latin America and the Far East (Tinajero, Kushigian). At the Feria, Lalo addressed the lack of attention given to Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican literature within the wider feld of Latin American literature. [...]en China, la emigración se convirtió en el antibiótico común para escapar de la hambruna y también de la muerte" (13). [...]when reading the history and representation of this group of people, it is necessary to pay attention to how the immigrants perceived Puerto Rico, as their perception was very different from that of those who did not have previous experience working in the Americas. [...]of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese immigrants in the United States fed to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.