Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945

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.


Author: Lisa Rose Mar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/13/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199733149

About the Author

Lisa Rose Mar is an Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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