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Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver
Paul Yee’s Saltwater City reveals the raw, often overlooked history of Vancouver’s Chinese community from the 19th century to the 1990s. This is a story of hard labor, exclusion, and fierce resilience—not a sanitized tourist guide. How did a neighborhood once defined by prejudice become a stronghold of identity and culture?
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