Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver is a 1989 book by Paul Yee, published by the University of Washington Press. It discusses the development of the Chinese Canadian community in Vancouver, British Columbia.The book has six chapters, organized chronologically. The book includes sidebar texts, documents, photographs, footnotes, a newspaper scan, and first-hand accounts. 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. Anthony B. Chan of California State University, Hayward wrote that \"This was never intended to be a scholarly book.\" 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."@en }
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- Saltwater_City:_An_Illustrated_History_of_the_Chinese_in_Vancouver abstract "Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver is a 1989 book by Paul Yee, published by the University of Washington Press. It discusses the development of the Chinese Canadian community in Vancouver, British Columbia.The book has six chapters, organized chronologically. The book includes sidebar texts, documents, photographs, footnotes, a newspaper scan, and first-hand accounts. 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. Anthony B. Chan of California State University, Hayward wrote that \"This was never intended to be a scholarly book.\" 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.".