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Immigration exhibit at Chinese Cultural Centre Museum
UBC’s Asian Library, in collaboration with the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives, presents Where Did the Immigrants Actually Come From? This exhibit, first shown in the Asian Library in 2010, was followed by a two-year project that involved mapping the villages and towns recorded in the Head Tax database. The exhibit runs Tuesday to […]
CHRP project in DIVERSE magazine
An article on the CHRP project – entitled Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Stories from a Common Past – appears in the Winter 2010 issue of DIVERSE magazine. You can view the article at DIVERSE winter2010. And you can find out more about Chinese Canadian Stories, which is a UBC Library and SFU Library initiative, here.
Asian Library research workshop on immigration
An upcoming workshop that’s part of the Asian Library’s 50th anniversary celebrations will focus on Chinese immigration patterns, aided by a head tax database that was launched in 2008. The “Workshop on the Taishan and Zhongshan Immigrants in North America” will enable community members, UBC students and scholars from around the world to conduct research […]