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Book Review
Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada
I am particularly interested in this volume, having been born in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 1938 and having a father who was treasurer of a district association. He was a shirt tailor, and I remember in...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 158-161
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Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
In September 1922, the Victoria, B.C. school board ordered 155 Chinese children (97 were Canadian-born and many spoke only English) to leave its regular elementary schools and move to segregated schools which only they would...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
Race and the City approaches racism, politics, and space through a comparative case study of two umbrella ethno-cultural community organizations, one in Toronto and one in Los Angeles. Drawing from interviews with key individuals employed...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 193-4
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Coming Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in Early Northwest America
In Coming Home in Gold Brocade, Bennet Benson and Chuimei Ho, an anthropologist and an archaeologist/historian respectively, present results of their ambitious study of the Chinese in Northwest America — an area including Washington, Oregon,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 208-209
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Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
This is a groundbreaking book in Chinese Canadian History and in the history of the global Chinese diaspora. It challenges conventional perceptions of Chinese relations with the mainstream society in Canada during the historical era...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 147-48
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Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966
David Chuenyan Lai and Ding Guo’s Great Fortune Dream is a comprehensive history of the Chinese in Canada, from early settlement to the 1960s. While much has been written on the subject, there have been...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 207-208
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Finding Memories, Tracing Routes: Chinese Canadian Family Stories
This book is a product of the first Family History Writing Workshop sponsored by the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia to encourage and facilitate the tracing of Chinese Canadian collective history, which has...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 128-30
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Chinese Servants in the West: Florence Baillie-Grohman’s “The Yellow and White Agony”
W.A. Baillie-Grohman is known to British Columbians for his aborted plan to build a canal in the East Kootenay and his stories of big game hunting, notably Fifteen Years’ Sport and Life in the Hunting...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 197-8
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Yip Sang and the First Chinese Canadians
Francis Hern’s Yip Sang and the First Chinese Canadians is the biography of a prominent merchant in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The story begins with Yip Sang’s arrival in...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 189-90
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Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada
This book examines the trans-Pacific mobility of migrants, products, images and ideas as part of the great global diaspora of Chinese people. As China has modernised and globalised, aspects of its self-transformation have been exported...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 111-112
Book Review
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Graphic texts are becoming increasingly popular as a way of telling history. Within three months of its official launch, David Wong’s Escape from Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America made...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 179-180
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Yi Fao/Speaking through Memory: A History of New Westminster’s Chinese Community, 1850-1980
PDF – Barman Review Essay – BC Studies 165, Spring 2010
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 101-6
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In the Sea of Sterile Mountains, The Chinese in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 25, Spring 1975
BC Studies no. 25 Spring 1975 | Page(s) 135-7
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Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns: Chinese Politics in the Americas and the 1911 Revolution
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 90, Summer 1991
BC Studies no. 90 Summer 1991 | Page(s) 78-80
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The Chinese Connection, Getting Plugged In To Pacific Rim Real Estate, Trade, and Capital Markets
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 73, Spring 1987
BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 69-71
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From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 61, Spring 1984
BC Studies no. 61 Spring 1984 | Page(s) 85-8
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The Chinese in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 84, Winter 1989/90
BC Studies no. 84 Winter 1989-1990 | Page(s) 106-8
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White Man’s Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914
PDF – Daniels Review Essay, BC Studies 156/157, Winter/Spring 2007/08
BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 173-7
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White Man’s Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 
The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province
A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Pages 173-7
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Breaking the ‘Silence’: A Review of Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
THIS BOOK is a biography of Tong Louie, a second-generation Chinese Canadian businessman whose name, for several decades, has been tied to two of the most well known retail chains in western Canada — IGA...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 141-2
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I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter
About a decade ago, I wrote a review article in this journal in which I expressed the hope that more first-hand accounts of growing up Japanese or Chinese in British Columbia would be published [1]....
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 134-135
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Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World
This book is like an open house for all benevolent and family associations to Victoria’s Chinatown, the oldest in Canada. The reader is introduced to each society and its purpose, through many photographs, some never...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 157-158
Book Review
An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism
Although descriptive work on historic artifacts of Asian origin has been sporadically produced by American archaeologists since the 1960s, and by British Columbia archaeologists since the 1970s, recent years have seen a blossoming of Asian...