TY - BOOK AU - Mar,Lisa Rose TI - Brokering belonging: Chinese in Canada's exclusion era, 1885-1945 SN - 9780199866533 (ebook) : AV - F1089.5.V22 U1 - 305.8009711 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Chinese KW - British Columbia KW - Vancouver KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Immigrants KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Canada KW - Emigration and immigration law KW - Politics and government KW - Brokers KW - Civic leaders KW - Community life KW - Vancouver (B.C.) KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This title traces several generations of Chinese 'brokers,' ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics, this book alters common understandings of how legally 'alien' groups' helped create modern immigrant nations UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733132.001.0001 ER -