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Being Chinese in Canada

Being Chinese in Canada
Author: William Ging Wee Dere
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-03-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781771622189

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Part memoir, part history, Being Chinese in Canada explores systemic discrimination against the Chinese Canadian community and the effects of the redress movement.


The Chinese in Canada

The Chinese in Canada
Author: Peter S. Li
Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780195412710

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First published in 1988, The Chinese in Canada remains a provocative account of the history and development of the Chinese-Canadian community. One reviewer praised the first edition as written in an 'extremely lucid and succinct fashion, admirably blending historical and demographic data' (Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology), and another described it as 'a credit to its author', remarking that 'it also helps to rehabilitate a field which is mesmerized by the notion of fidelityto native culture and by the illusion of ethnic inequality' (Canadian Historical Review). The book's success prompted the publication of a Chinese translation in 1992. In this second edition, Peter Li has expanded his original historical analysis to include the many changes that have taken place in the Chinese-Canadian community in recent years. In addition to explaining how and why the Chinese became targets of institutional racism, he offers new insights into why Canadian society continues to view Chinese-Canadians as foreigners, despite their occupational and economic success.


The Triumph of Citizenship

The Triumph of Citizenship
Author: Patricia E. Roy
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774840757

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Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association. Patricia E. Roy examines the climax of antipathy to Asians in Canada: the removal of all Japanese Canadians from the BC coast in 1942. Canada ignored the rights of Japanese Canadians and placed strict limits on Chinese immigration. In response, Japanese Canadians and their supporters in the human rights movement managed to halt "repatriation" to Japan, and Chinese Canadians successfully lobbied for the same rights as other Canadians to sponsor immigrants. The final triumph of citizenship came in 1967, when immigration regulations were overhauled and the last remnants of discrimination removed.


The China Challenge

The China Challenge
Author: Huhua Cao
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2011-05-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0776619551

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With the exception of Canada’s relationship with the United States, Canada’s relationship with China will likely be its most significant foreign connection in the twenty-first century. As China’s role in world politics becomes more central, understanding China becomes essential for Canadian policymakers and policy analysts in a variety of areas. Responding to this need, The China Challenge brings together perspectives from both Chinese and Canadian experts on the evolving Sino-Canadian relationship. It traces the history and looks into the future of Canada-China bilateral relations. It also examines how China has affected a number of Canadian foreign and domestic policy issues, including education, economics, immigration, labour and language. Recently, Canada-China relations have suffered from inadequate policymaking and misunderstandings on the part of both governments. Establishing a good dialogue with China must be a Canadian priority in order to build and maintain mutually beneficial relations with this emerging power, which will last into the future.


Chop Suey Nation

Chop Suey Nation
Author: Ann Hui
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-02-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781771622226

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The surprising history and vibrant present of small-town Chinese restaurants from Victoria, BC, to Fogo Island, NL


Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax

Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax
Author: Arlene Chan
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1459404432

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The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada in the mid-1800s searching for gold and a better life. They found jobs in forestry, mining, and other resource industries. But life in Canada was difficult and the immigrants had to face racism and cultural barriers. Thousands were recruited to work building the Canadian Pacific Railway. Once the railway was finished, Canadian governments and many Canadians wanted the Chinese to go away. The government took measures to stop immigration from China to Canada. Starting in 1885, the government imposed a Head Tax with the goal of stopping immigration from China. In 1923 a ban was imposed that lasted to 1947. Despite this hostility and racism, Chinese-Canadian citizens built lives for themselves and persisted in protesting official discrimination. In June 2006, Prime Minister Harper apologized to Chinese Canadians for the former racist policies of the Canadian government. Through historical photographs, documents, and first-person narratives from Chinese Canadians who experienced the Head Tax or who were children of Head Tax payers, this book offers a full account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how this official racism was confronted and finally acknowledged.


Passage to Promise Land

Passage to Promise Land
Author: Vivienne Poy
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0773541497

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How the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.


Trans-Pacific Mobilities

Trans-Pacific Mobilities
Author: Lloyd Lee Wong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 9780774833806

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"With the population of Chinese living outside of its borders expected to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics throughout Asia, the Americas, and the South Pacific. As China's international influence continues to grow, Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada. Three waves of Chinese migration to Canada--labour migration, the exodus from Hong Kong prior to the 1997 handover, and the current swell of moneyed immigration from Mainland China--have resulted in 1.5 million inhabitants of Chinese descent, and Canada is currently the second most popular destination for Chinese settlement. The interdisciplinary cast of contributors to this volume draws on the new mobilities paradigm to explore this massive movement of people through five lenses, charting historic, cultural and symbolic, highly skilled,


Cultivating Connections

Cultivating Connections
Author: Alison Marshall
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774828021

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In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For them, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada's Chinese settlers - men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies.


Mass Capture

Mass Capture
Author: Lily Cho
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0228009332

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Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation, identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly, identification photographs. The originals were transferred to microfilm and destroyed in 1963; more than 41,000 grainy reproductions of CI 9s remain. Lily Cho explores how the CI 9s functioned as a form of surveillance and a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens, revealing the surprising dynamism of non-citizenship constantly regulated and monitored, made and remade, by an anxious state. The first mass use of identification photography in Canada, they make up the largest archive of images of Chinese migrants in the country, including people who stood no chance of being photographed otherwise. But CI 9s generated far more information than could be processed, and there is nothing straightforward about the knowledge that they purported to contain. Cho finds traces of alternate forms of kinship in the archive as well as evidence of the ways that families were separated. In attending to the particularities of these images and documents, Mass Capture uncovers the alternative story that lies in the refusals and resistances enacted by the mass captured. Illustrated with painstakingly reconstituted digital reproductions of the microfilm record, Mass Capture reclaims the CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression, suggesting the possibilities for beauty and dignity in the archive, for captivation as well as capture.