Smoke and Fire: The Chinese in Montreal

by Chan Kwok-Bun

Now distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press

This book is, in fact, a study of human survival. It describes the Chinese immigrants in Montreal, Canada, as they encounter racial discrimination. It begins with the arrival of the first batch of Cantonese, in the 1850s, in Victoria, British Columbia, and ends, in the late 1970s and 1980s, in Montreal. Like Vancouver and Toronto, Montreal saw the influx of two contrasting groups of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622014615
• ISBN13: 9789622014619
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"