I did some web searching and found an interesting article on the little known connection between reggae development in Jamaica and some of the Chinese Jamaicans, children of immigrants, who helped develop the movement in Jamaica as musicians and as record producers.
See the fascinating story at
http://www.danwei.org/chinese_reggae_pioneers.php.
The website also refers to a book on the history of Jamaican music titled Reggae Routes, the Story of Jamaican Music, written by Jamaicans Kevin O'Brien Chang and Wayne Chen.
A discussion of the book from a Temple University website: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1443_reg_print.html
