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Book Synopsis
As China’s international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country’s people, culture, information, and economy continues to shape Canadian cities and China itself.

Trade Review
Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada provides a welcome breadth of knowledge on different groups of ethnic Chinese in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the present day. -- Jennifer Lau * The Ormsby Review *

Table of Contents

Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobilites: The Chinese and Canada / Lloyd L. Wong

Part 1: Historical Mobilities

1 The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks Across Space and Time / Henry Yu and Stephanie Chan

2 Transnational Mobilities in Canadian Chinatowns / David Chuenyan Lai

Part 2: Cultural and Symbolic Mobilities

3 Heeding the Phoenix Pen: Trans-Pacific Scriptures from Lü Dongbin / Paul Crowe

4 Mandarin Profile: Chinese-Language Television and Geo-Ethnic Storytelling / Shuyu Kong

5 Media Representations of Investment and Labour in Alberta’s Resource Economy / Marcella Sisqueira Cassiano, Sara Dorow, and Heather Schmidt

Part 3: Highly Skilled Mobilities

6 New Immigrants from China to Canada, 1980-2009: Migration Patterns and Economic Performance / Eva Xiaoling Li and Peter S. Li

7 Economic Mobilities of Highly Skilled China-Born Migrants in Canada and the United States / Lucia Lo, Shaolu Yu, and Wei Li

8 Chinese Techno-Immigrants in Western Canada / Karl Froschauer and Lloyd L. Wong

9 Canadian Immigration Policy and Chinese Students: Transitioning to Permanent Residency / Yixi Lu and Li Zong

Part 4: Family and Gendered Mobilities

10 Locational Dispersion of Family Members: Chinese in Toronto / Eric Fong and Jenny Li

11 Gendered Practices of Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals / Guida Man and Elena Chou

12 Bringing Transnationalism Home: Mobility and Locality in China-Canada Adoption / Sara Dorow

Part 5: Transnational Mobilities

13 Exploring Transnational Identities of Chinese Immigrant Children in Canada / Yan Zhang and Yan Guo

14 Double Diaspora: Chinese Canadians in Beijing / Shibao Guo

15 The Practice of Transnationalism in Pacific Mall: Chinese Canadian Experience / Ho Hon Leung

16 Chinatown Unbound / Kay Anderson

Index

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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As China’s international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country’s people, culture, information, and economy continues to shape Canadian cities and China itself.

      Trade Review
      Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada provides a welcome breadth of knowledge on different groups of ethnic Chinese in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the present day. -- Jennifer Lau * The Ormsby Review *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobilites: The Chinese and Canada / Lloyd L. Wong

      Part 1: Historical Mobilities

      1 The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks Across Space and Time / Henry Yu and Stephanie Chan

      2 Transnational Mobilities in Canadian Chinatowns / David Chuenyan Lai

      Part 2: Cultural and Symbolic Mobilities

      3 Heeding the Phoenix Pen: Trans-Pacific Scriptures from Lü Dongbin / Paul Crowe

      4 Mandarin Profile: Chinese-Language Television and Geo-Ethnic Storytelling / Shuyu Kong

      5 Media Representations of Investment and Labour in Alberta’s Resource Economy / Marcella Sisqueira Cassiano, Sara Dorow, and Heather Schmidt

      Part 3: Highly Skilled Mobilities

      6 New Immigrants from China to Canada, 1980-2009: Migration Patterns and Economic Performance / Eva Xiaoling Li and Peter S. Li

      7 Economic Mobilities of Highly Skilled China-Born Migrants in Canada and the United States / Lucia Lo, Shaolu Yu, and Wei Li

      8 Chinese Techno-Immigrants in Western Canada / Karl Froschauer and Lloyd L. Wong

      9 Canadian Immigration Policy and Chinese Students: Transitioning to Permanent Residency / Yixi Lu and Li Zong

      Part 4: Family and Gendered Mobilities

      10 Locational Dispersion of Family Members: Chinese in Toronto / Eric Fong and Jenny Li

      11 Gendered Practices of Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals / Guida Man and Elena Chou

      12 Bringing Transnationalism Home: Mobility and Locality in China-Canada Adoption / Sara Dorow

      Part 5: Transnational Mobilities

      13 Exploring Transnational Identities of Chinese Immigrant Children in Canada / Yan Zhang and Yan Guo

      14 Double Diaspora: Chinese Canadians in Beijing / Shibao Guo

      15 The Practice of Transnationalism in Pacific Mall: Chinese Canadian Experience / Ho Hon Leung

      16 Chinatown Unbound / Kay Anderson

      Index

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