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Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
Mar, Lisa Rose (Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park)
Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
Mar, Lisa Rose (Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park)
This fascinating account of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. New Chinese language evidence reveals how ethnic leaders' role as transnational actors and intermediaries both transformed Canadian politics and changed understandings of immigrant communities in a turbulent 20th century.
256 pages, 3
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 9, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780199733149 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 234 × 157 × 18 mm · 382 g |
Language | English |