Between Mexico City’s Ottoman Clock and Chinese Clock, it may seem that all anyone gives Mexico to celebrate their independence is clocks. But beyond celebration, both clocks are also symbols of gratitude towards Mexico for their acceptance of migrants during the early 19th and 20th centuries. The Lebanese and Turkish governments gifted their clock in 1910 to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of Mexico’s War of Independence; thus, the last imperial government of China gifted this clock in 1921 to mark the Centennial of Mexico’s victory and full independence…
