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The Diary of Dukesang Wong

Édité par David McIlwraith
Traduit par Wanda Joy Hoe
Par (auteur) Dukesang Wong
Catégories: Histoires des Amériques

Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. Dukesang ...

The Mongolian Chronicles

Par (auteur) Allen Smutylo
Catégories: Histoire de l’Asie

In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting ...

Inside Chinatown

Par (auteur) Robert Amos & Kileasa Wong
Catégories: Histoire de l’Asie

Victoria’s Chinatown is Canada’s oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind ...

East Timor: Testimony

Par (auteur) Elaine Briere
Contributions de Noam Chomsky
Catégories: Collections de photographies

The People of East Timor endured the brutality of colonization and invasion, to emerge into the uncertain light of nationhood. At this point of transition, through stunning images and insightful texts, ...

The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80

In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the
fascinating story of the city’s Chinese in their search for
identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations
of Chinese ...