FILM 3209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Independent Film, Immigration Law, Dragon Dance
22 Oct 2017
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History of chinese community in bc: 1880s chinese labourers improted to build canadian pacific railway, hired because no one else wanted to do it, cpr always used as a great symbol of canada without mentioning the chinese- 2,000 chinese in vancouver (only 60 women and children: 1911 approx. 6,500 (600 women and over 500 children in public schools: 1923 revised chinese immigrant act ends on almost all chinese immigration til 1947, 1931 approx. 7,000: 1947 chinese in bc gain right to vote and extremely limited immigration allowed, 1951 approx. 15,000: 1967 immigration law replaced by points system to open doors to immigrants from. Asia, africa, south america, and caribbean: 1981 83,000, 1991 over 300,000 out of vancouver pop. Kong before it was given to the republic of china: 1994 double happiness released, set in 1987. Brenda austin-smith: sandra oh is probably the most well known chinese-canadian actress, from nepean, ottawa, ontario, born in 1971, is in double happiness.
