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xi Acknowledgments Many people in the United States, Mexico, Macau, and Hong Kong have helped make this project possible. I am especially indebted to the Chinese Mexicans who kindly shared their stories with me: Gabriela Strand Bruce, Alfonso Wong Campoy, María de Los Angeles Leyva Cervón, Sergio Chin-­ Ley, Ignacio Fonseca Chon, Antonia Wong Enríquez de López, María del Carmen Irma Wong Campoy Maher Conceição, Bertha Lourdes Amador Gil, Marta Elia Lau de Salazar, Guillermo Chan López, Fernando Ma, José de JesúsTapia Martens, Elena Morris, Paul Tsang, Luisa MaríaValdez, Luis Chan Valenzuela, and Cristóbal Chua Wong. In Sonora, where I began the research, archivists, historians, chroniclers , professors, and students provided invaluable assistance. I thank in particular Carlos Lucero Aja, David Allen, Rafael Martínez Álvarez, Gastón Cano Avila, Alicia Barrios, Ignacio Almada Bay, Juan Ramírez Cisneros , Pamela del Carmen Corella Romero, Jesús Verdugo Escoboza, Juan Manuel Romero Gil, Servando Ortoll, Cynthia Radding, Raquel Padilla Ramos, Manuel Hernández Salomón, and Leo Sandoval. Clara Guadalupe Peña Becerra, Julieta Gastelum, Julieta López Griego, Eva Nohemí Orozco García, Victor Manuel Osuna, Marcela Preciado, María del Carmen Tonella , and Ana Luz Ramírez Zavala provided crucial companionship and laughter during my research trips. Special thanks go to my uncle Jorge Sosa Salazar and family friend Delfino “Pino” Robles for helping me find Alfonso Wong Campoy. In Macau and Hong Kong, I owe a profound debt of gratitude to Victor Aguilar, José Angel Castellanos, Coralia Castro, Belisa Hurtado Cheng, César Guillén-­ Nuñez, Vincent W. K. Ho, Adriana Ing, Lau Mian, Marta Lei, Ricardo Sánchez Leong,Victor Mejía, Isabel Maria da Costa Morais, Karen Ivone Abud Rivera, Lancelot M. Rodrigues, Catalina Carmen Sánchez, Tereza Sena, Sara Fereira da Silva, Beatriz Mariño Tancock, Luz Lucrecia Chang Un, Cristal Vásquez, Elena Chang de Wu, Xi Yan, and Peter Thomas Zabielskis. I extend special thanks to the Asociación de Mujeres de Habla xii | Acknowledgments Hispana de Hong Kong, and Ngai Mei Cheong, Chan Prado Ka Wai, and Zhang Xin at the Macao Association for the Promotion of Exchange between Asia-­ Pacific and Latin America (MAPEAL). I am highly grateful to the Macao Foundation for a research grant that allowed me to conduct further research in the former colony. I express my deepest thanks to the following people, who read and offered comments on drafts of the manuscript: Meredith Abarca, Jason Oliver Chang, John R. Chávez, Stephanie Cole, Grace Peña Delgado, Crista J. DeLuzio, George T. Díaz, Daniel Herman, Evelyn Hu-­ DeHart, Benjamin H. Johnson, Erika Lee, Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Cheryl E. Martin, Alexis McCrossen, Sandra McGee Deutsch, Jacqueline M. Moore, María Cristina Morales, Mae M. Ngai, Gina Nuñez, Emma Pérez, Lok Siu, Sherry Smith, Joshua M. Price, and K. Scott Wong. The generous support of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University helped bring the work to fruition; the provocative manuscript workshop led by the center was invaluable. I am indebted to Andrea Boardman and Ruth Ann Elmore for their tireless support and advocacy both during the year I had the fellowship and ever since. The Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship at Williams College, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s George E. Pozzetta Award, and a Mexico-­ North Research Network Transnationalism Fellowship as well as a University Research Institute Grant, a Francis Harper Research Award, a Krutelik Graduate Scholarship, and the Graduate Excellence Award from the University of Texas at El Paso helped me complete the original research. Editors Carl Abbott, David A. Johnson, and Susan Wladaver-­ Morgan as well as anonymous readers at the Pacific Historical Review provided invaluable feedback that continued to help me enormously as I worked on the book. The journal’s Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award allowed me to further the research in Macau. I also thank many friends, colleagues, and former professors: Constance An, Kif Augustine-­ Adams, Bert Barickman, Michelle Berry, Maylei Blackwell, Stephania Boswell, Scarlet Bowen, Laura Briggs, Maritza Broce, Erika Castaño, Verónica Castillo-­ Muñoz, Guadalupe Castillo, Ondine Chavoya, Kenton Clymer, Dong Jingsheng, Nicole Etcheson, Maureen Fitzgerald, Josie Gin Morgan, Fredy González, Gayatri Gopinath , Kiana M. Green, Judith Halberstam, Miranda Joseph, Keng We Koh, Regina G. Kunzel, Julian Lim, George C. S. Lin, Monica Lizaóla, Kathleen López, Leisa D. Meyer, Isabelle Lausent-­ Herrera, Alfonso Morales, Jos...

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