Chinese-Mexican History - Laszlo chats with Hugo Wong

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

First off, let me apologize for the less-than-optimal audio quality. This is a very informative interview. And for those of you who missed my very old episode from 2013 or thereabouts covering this topic, this discussion will be a real eye-opener. The history of the Chinese immigrant experience in Mexico (and Latin America) is not that well known. Hugo's ancestors emigrated to Mexico from Guangdong back in the 19th century. One of them, Wong Fook Chun was a major figure in the history of those times and he had an interesting interaction with the Qing-era reformer Kang Youwei. I hope you'll suffer through the lousy audio and that you'll get a lot out of this episode. Chinese-Mexican history was once filled with tragedy and violence. Again, sorry about the audio quality. Here's a link to his book, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream": https://a.co/d/0Yh5LiZ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Lhasla Montgomery here, got another CHP special episode for you.
0:05.0	Back in 2013, some of you might remember, I produced a show covering the history of the Chinese in Mexico. That was CHP 123. A lot of the feedback I got
0:18.8	from listeners was that they had no idea about any of this history.
0:24.0	Tales of the Chinese diaspora come in all shapes and sizes
0:28.0	and their history took place and all the countries of the world.
0:32.0	So to continue this history... all the countries of the world.
0:33.0	So to continue this history of the Chinese and Mexico,
0:36.8	I'm very happy to introduce Hugo Wong
0:39.0	and to have him on the program
0:40.5	because his family was part of that history that I presented to you in that
0:45.0	episode back in the good old days in 2013. Hugo Wong is an author and an entrepreneur who grew up between Paris and Mexico City, and since 1995, he has lived intermittently in Beijing.
1:01.0	And Hugo's also a longtime investor in China and Mexico helping clients
1:06.4	to establish Sino Foreign Joint Ventures, including China's first Investment Bank.
1:11.7	He built his career in emerging markets investment at major
1:15.4	Hong Kong, London, and New York financial institutions. His book that came out a year ago in
1:21.5	2023 is entitled America's Lost Chinese, the rise and fall of a
1:27.9	migrant family dream. The book covers a history that spans a century from the 1860s to the 1960s.
1:37.0	So all the way from London, welcome to the CHP Hugo Wong.
1:42.0	Thanks for having me, LASLO.
1:45.0	Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:47.0	You know, we got a lot to cover.
1:48.0	So let's start with the two main figures from the book,
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