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Hi, I'm Christine. I just completed a masters degree in English Studies after slogging through the last 6 months researching and writing my dissertation on Asian Canadian literature. Now I'm contemplating future directions while I take a breather from study and continue to enjoy my work as a language teacher.
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Let us seriously warn you not to think of coming to this place on any account or under any consideration…Why should you, brothers, leave your parents and your wives and children to come over here? Don’t you know that our lot in life here is very much harder than it is in China?..Woe to the Chinaman who once sets foot on the soil of this country. ”
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Chinese circular issued by the Victoria Board of Trade (1913) said to have been widely distributed in China. It described the hostility, exclusionary laws, discriminatory taxes and labour exploitation which “confined Chinese workers to low-status menial work and reduced them to second-class citizens” (Eleanor Ty in
The Politics of the Visible)
