| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945–80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power. By Wing Chung Ng. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xii + 201 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

From the time of the fur trade to the era of free trade, the American and Canadian Wests have shared many historic events and cultural traits, including Asian immigration and contribution to the areas. Despite little trespassing by Americans and Canadians into each others' research fields regarding Asian immigrants, scholars on both sides of the border often raise similar intellectual questions and take the same theoretical approach. The Chinese in Vancouver is the book that reminds us to ignore the international boundary in such studies. 1

Wing Chung Ng chooses the Chinese community in Vancouver, British Columbia, for a case study. Since the end of the Second World War the new waves of immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China have enlarged the local ethnic community at an unexpected rate. Vancouver boasts one of the largest Chinese populations in North America: one-fifth of the city's residents. Based on thorough research and thoughtful argument, Ng's work unveils the complicated story of the Chinese in their search for identity from 1945 to 1980. . . .

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