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Download or read book Yip Sang written by Frances Hern and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make their fortunes in the goldfields or working on the railroads. Among them was 36-year-old Yip Sang, a native of Guangdong province in southeast China, who arrived in Vancouver in 1881 after failing to strike it rich in California. His luck was about to change. Through perseverance, hard work and an eye for opportunity, the enterprising Yip Sang amassed considerable wealth to pass on to his wives and 23 children when he died in 1927. As the unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Yip Sang was instrumental in helping new Chinese immigrants as they fought to overcome social, economic and political barriers. This fascinating history details the struggles and successes of Yip Sang and the first Chinese Canadians as they built new lives and left a lasting legacy for their families and community.
Download or read book Saltwater City written by Paul Yee and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saltwater City pays tribute to those who went through the hard times, to those who swallowed their pride, to those who were powerless and humiliated, but who still carried on. They all had faith that things would be better for future generations. They have been proven correct. Canada’s first Chinese arrived in British Columbia in 1858 from California. Almost all mee—merchants, peasants, and laborers — and almost all from eight rural counties in the Pearl River delta in what is now Guangdong province — they came in search of gold and better fortune, escaping the rebellions, flood and drought of their homeland. By 1863 over 4,000 Chinese lived in B.C., filling jobs shunned by whites: miners, road builders, teamsters, laundry men, restaurateurs, domestic servants and cannery workers. Between 1881 and 1885, thousands more arrived, most imported to build the transcontinental railway. They were to create, in Vancouver, Canada’s largest and most dynamic Chinese Community, known to its original inhabitants as Saltwater City.
Book Synopsis Pacific Connections by : Kornel Chang
Download or read book Pacific Connections written by Kornel Chang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.
Book Synopsis Contesting White Supremacy by : Timothy J. Stanley
Download or read book Contesting White Supremacy written by Timothy J. Stanley and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922-23, Chinese students in Victoria, British Columbia, went on strike to protest a school board's attempt to impose segregation. Their resistance was unexpected and runs against the grain of mainstream accounts of Asian exclusion, which tend to ignore the agency of the excluded. In Contesting White Supremacy, Timothy Stanley combines Chinese sources and perspectives with an innovative theory of racism and anti-racism to explain the strike and construct an alternative reading of racism in British Columbia. His work demonstrates that education was an arena in which white supremacy confronted Chinese nationalist schooling and where parents and students contested racism by constructing a new category � Chinese Canadian � to define their identity.
Download or read book Yip Sang written by Frances Hern and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the story of Yip Sang and the legacy of the first Chinese Canadians.
Book Synopsis The British Columbia Gazette by : British Columbia
Download or read book The British Columbia Gazette written by British Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploring Vancouver by : Harold Kalman
Download or read book Exploring Vancouver written by Harold Kalman and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes, and a maturing architectrual melange is emerging. This book invites the reader to explore the city's continually evolving urban landscape in a highly readable, yet authoritative, guide to its architecture. In this completely updated edition of Exploring Vancouver, with brand-new entries and accompanying photographs, Harold Kalman and Robin Ward have divided the city (including the North Shore, Richmond, Burnaby and New Westminster) into fourteen areas, selecting buildings and structures in these neighbourhoods that represent the best exakmples of the new and old architecture. Each area is preceded by an informative introduction that provides historical context for the entries that follow. There are over 400 entries, each featuring a short description that combines architectural, historical and social commentary. The prose is lively as the authors consider the new and the old, the modest and the grand, the attractive and the not-so-attractive in a wide-ranging work that encompasses everything from heritage to "monster" homes. This book is designed as a walking tour guide, with a map of each area showing the location of every entry.
Download or read book Blue Book written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler Colourguide by : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Download or read book Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler Colourguide written by Formac Publishing Company Limited and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook provides a wealth of up-to-date information about Canada's West Coast, complete with over 300 color photographs. Local writers explore both Vancouver and Victoria and their distinctive neighbourhoods. There's detailed coverage of Vancouver's Stanley Park, the Vancouver Aquarium and Canada Place as well as nearby destinations of Whistler, the Gulf Islands and the Sunshine Coast. In Victoria, this guide highlights the Parliament buildings, Inner Harbour and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Download or read book The Canadian Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Government Gazette by : Perak (Malaysia)
Download or read book Government Gazette written by Perak (Malaysia) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biography of Yip Sang written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of Cantonese Opera by : Wing Chung Ng
Download or read book The Rise of Cantonese Opera written by Wing Chung Ng and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou--a transformation that changed it forever. Wing Chung Ng charts Cantonese opera's confrontations with state power, nationalist discourses, and its challenge to the ascendancy of Peking opera as the country's preeminent "national theatre." Mining vivid oral histories and heretofore untapped archival sources, Ng relates how Cantonese opera evolved from a fundamentally rural tradition into urbanized entertainment distinguished by a reliance on capitalization and celebrity performers. He also expands his analysis to the transnational level, showing how waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further re-shaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora.
Book Synopsis Brokering Belonging by : Lisa Rose Mar
Download or read book Brokering Belonging written by Lisa Rose Mar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Lisa Rose Mar's study of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. Drawing on new Chinese language evidence, her dramatic account of political power struggles over representing Chinese Canadians offers a transnational immigrant view of history, centered in a Pacific World that joins Canada, the United States, China, and the British Empire.
Book Synopsis Chinese Community Leadership by : David Chuenyan Lai
Download or read book Chinese Community Leadership written by David Chuenyan Lai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction -- 2. Establishment of CCBA, 1884-1885 -- 3. Oligarchic rule, 1884-1890s -- 4. Functions and activities, 1884-1890s -- 5. Organizational growth, 1890s-1930s -- 6. Democratic rule, 1900s-1930s -- 7. Political dominance, 1940s-1960s -- 8. Nominal leadership, 1970s-2000s -- 9. Retrospect and prospect.
Book Synopsis The Mining Laws of the British Empire and of Foreign Countries by : Gilbert Stone
Download or read book The Mining Laws of the British Empire and of Foreign Countries written by Gilbert Stone and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canadian Holy War by : Ian Macdonald
Download or read book Canadian Holy War written by Ian Macdonald and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the only other adult in the house at the time was the Chinese houseboy. When Smith's death was followed by the assassination of Davie Lew, a well-known Chinese man, it only strengthened the European view that Vancouver's Asian community was a hotbed of violence and corruption. Newspaper editors and most of Vancouver's white community raised an outcry, charging the police with incompetence and demanding arrests, while Presbyterian indignation called for law and order as well as an end to Chinese immigration. Before the summer was over, the tongs of Chinatown and the clans of Canada's West Coast were set to defend their own, and one Scottish minister went so far as to declare it a time of "holy war."
