The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba

ISBN-13: 9780774819169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 226 str.

Alison R Marshall;The Hon Inky Mark

Opis

The lives of early Japanese and Chinese settlers in British Columbia have come to define the Asian experience in Canada. Yet many men travelled beyond British Columbia to settle in small prairie towns and cities. Chinese bachelors opened the region's first laundries and Chinese cafes. They maintained ties to the Old World and negotiated a place in the new by fostering a vibrant homosocial culture based on friendship, everyday religious practices, the example of Sun Yat-sen, and the sharing of food. This exploration of the intersection of gender and migration in rural Canada offers new takes on the Chinese quest for identity in North America.