Book
Toronto's Chinatown: the changing social organization of an ethnic community
AMS Press • (29) • Published In 1989 • Pages: xv, 430
By: Thompson, Richard H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is an examination of the history and social organization of the Chinese population in Toronto, Canada. It is an '…ethnographic study or descriptive analysis and interpretation of one ethnic minority and its historical relations with the Canadian state' (p.xii). Instead of directly critiquing the philosophy of politics of Canada's ethnic policy, Thompson shows how state policies have affected the Chinese community, both in the past and up to the mid 1970s. Although this work is an in-depth community study, dealing with the history and development of Toronto's Chinatown through three major phases, the traditional, transitional, and contemporary periods, it also contains a wealth of information on Chinese immigration and immigration policies, various Chinese associations, class structure and class conflict, Chinese enterprises and occupations, and the status of the Chinese student in Canadian society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Food service industries
- Special clothing industries
- Garment care
- Settlements
- Mercantile business
- Insurance
- Labor
- Individual enterprise
- Ethnic stratification
- Classes
- Sodalities
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Kin relationships
- Kin groups
- Health and welfare
- Education
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chinese Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle, 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976-1977 (fourteen months) (p. xiv)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Toronto, Ont., Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard H. Thompson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-427) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinese Canadians