Way of the Batchelor : Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba, Hardcover

by Alison R. Marshall

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Way of the Batchelor : Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba, Hardcover by Marshall, Alison R., ISBN 0774819154, ISBN-13 9780774819152, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Focusing on the years between 1911 and 1949, this study of the Chinese settlement of Manitoba examines the complicated roles of religion, the laundry, and the restaurant in the lives of Chinese immigrants, with special consideration given to Christianity, Confucianism, Sun Yat-sen and the KMT, and food and identity in the lives of the men who had to live as bachelors while they formed new lives in Canada. Due to the absence of Chinese women in western Manitoba for over three decades, traditional relationship roles had to be reimagined, which resulted in new social, political, and economic identities. Th includes b&w photographs and is distributed by UTP distribution. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Year: 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780774819152
• Condition: Fine

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