Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver
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Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver is a 1988 book by Paul Yee, published by Douglas & McIntyre. It discusses the development of the Chinese Canadian community in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Author | Paul Yee |
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Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Subject | Chinese Canadians in Greater Vancouver |
Publisher | Douglas & McIntyre |
Publication date | 1988 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 174 |
Awards | City of Vancouver Book Award (1989) |
ISBN | 978-0-88894-616-4 |
971.1/33 | |
LC Class | FC3847.9 .C45 Y43 1988 |
The book has six chapters,[1] organized chronologically.[2] The book includes sidebar texts, documents, photographs, footnotes,[1] a newspaper scan,[3] and first-hand accounts.[4] Mitchell Wong, a reviewer for the Amerasia Journal, stated the book is intended to be a "relatively short, illustrated" book that highlights key points of history, in a manner similar to that of Longtime Californ', instead of having analytical depth in the manner of A White Man's Province by Patricia Roy.[5] Anthony B. Chan of California State University, Hayward wrote that "This was never intended to be a scholarly book."[6] Judy Yung of the University of California, Santa Cruz wrote that Saltwater City is "not as scholarly" as Roy's book, From China to Canada, or Chinatowns: Towns Within Cities in Canada by Chuenyan Lai.[7]
The book won the 1989 City of Vancouver Book Award[8] and was a finalist for the 1989 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. A revised edition of the book was published in 2006.[9]