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A Cowherd in Paradise One Family's Struggle Against Canada's Chinese Exclusion Laws | 16.49 MB
Title: A Cowherd in Paradise One Family's Struggle Against Canada's Chinese Exclusion Laws
Author: May Q. Wong, Catherine Clement
Category: Biography & Memoir, Historical
Language: English | 342 Pages | ISBN: 9781990071287
Description:
"Wong's description of the enforced polarization of one nuclear family, set asunder by a Canadian law excluding ethnic Chinese immigrants-no matter if they are wife, daughter, or son-should be required reading for anyone who cares about citizenship and human rights." -Jan Wong, author of Red China Blues
In 1979, Wong Guey Dang and Jiang Tew Thloo celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in Montreal surrounded by family-a milestone all the more impressive because for the first twenty-five years of their marriage, Canada's exclusionary Chinese Immigration Act forced them to live an ocean apart. In this powerful, intimately written family history, May Q. Wong recounts her parents' epic quest spanning two continents, five generations, and nearly a century to reunite their family.
In China at the turn of the century, Thloo was a young cowherd responsible for tending her family's fortune-their water buffalo. She...
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