Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in Bc's Kootenays and Interior Towns by Chow, Lily

Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773860749)

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Format: Paperback
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Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in Bc's Kootenays and Interior Towns by Chow, Lily

Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay

$18.95
Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in Bc's Kootenays and Interior Towns by Chow, Lily

Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today.

Author: Lily Chow
ISBN-10: 1773860747
ISBN-13: 9781773860749
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.91w x 1.42d
By Lily Chow
By Lily Chow
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Lily Chow, a researcher and writer, immigrated to Canada in 1967. She possesses a master's degree of Education and has taught high school in Prince George and Mandarin at the University of Northern British Columbia for three years. Her book publications include Blossoms in the Gold Mountains (2018), Blood and Sweat over the Railway Tracks (2014), Chasing Their Dreams (2000), and Sojourners in the North (1996). Currently, she resides in Victoria, BC.

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