Though you wouldn’t immediately tell by looking at her, Victoria Elizabeth Cann, a Jamaican living and working in Beijing, actually has some Chinese roots. Jamaica, an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea and famous for its natural scenery, Blue Mountain Coffee, Reggae music and some of the world’s fastest athletes, is far from China. However, in the 19th century, some people from China’s coastal regions went to work in Jamaica and eventually settled down on the island. Cann’s great-grandfathers were among them.
“My great-grandfathers on both my mother’s and father’s side were Chinese. They were from Guangdong Province in south China,” Cann told Beijing Review.
Cann first came to China in 2015 to pursue her Ph.D. at the Communication
