Mercantile Mobility: Chinese Merchants in Western Canada

by Helen Kwan Yee Cheung

This exhibition catalogue traces a group of dynamic Chinese merchants and their business activities in big cities and small towns in Western Canada after they arrived from China, covering the mid-nineteenth century into the millennium. Their movements are illustrated on various maps and chronicled in many written accounts. By managing the flow of people, products, and money at the municipal, provincial, and global levels, these individuals added to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551954699
• ISBN13: 9781551954691
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 11.9"