Smoke and Fire, The Chinese of Montreal: The Chinese in Montreal - Hardcover

Chan, Kwok-bun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9622014615 ISBN 13: 9789622014619

Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2001

Synopsis

Smoke and Fire, the Chinese of Montreal Chinese immigrants in Montreal, Canada, systematically encountered racial discrimination. The author uses oral history and in-depth interview material to document the costs of racism on the one hand and the strategies for adaptation on the other. It covers a period from the 1850s to the late 1980s. Full description

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume is, in fact, a study of human survival. It describes the Chinese immigrants in Montreal, Canada, as they encounter racial discrimination. It begins with the arrival of the first batch of Cantonese, in the 1850s, in Victoria, British Columbia, and ends, in the late 1970s and 1980s, in Montreal. Like Vancouver and Toronto, Montreal saw the influx of two contrasting groups of Chinese: refugees of Chinese descent from Indo-China, and economic migrants from Hong Kong. The book uses oral history and in-depth interview material, in documenting the costs of racism on the one hand, and the strategies for adaptation on the other. The author argues that the kind of racism the Chinese in Montreal have been subjected to is a systematic one.

About the Author:

Chan Kwok Bun is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He has published many books and essays on the overseas Chinese and Indo-Chinese refugees. He is the editor of the Southeast-Asian Journal of Social Science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9622014615
• ISBN 13: 9789622014619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338