The Writing on the Wall : : Chinese and Japanese Immigration to BC, 1920 / / Hilda Glynn-Ward.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Glynn-Ward, Hilda,
• TeilnehmendeR: Roy, Patricia.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)

With tales of a gruesome murder, a typhoid epidemic, corrupt politicians, and a Japanese invasion, The Writing on the Wall was intended to shock its readers when it was published in 1921. Thinly disguised as a novel, it is a propaganda tract exhorting white British Columbians to greater vigilance to...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• Part I. The past
• Chapter 1. Introducing one Chung Lee and another man of parts
• Chapter 2. In which Gordon Morley tells no secrets
• Chapter 3. Which introduces Lizzie Laidlaw
• Chapter 4. In which the 'Empress' unships a valuable cargo
• Chapter 5. In which a famous lawyer finds himself in a hurry
• Chapter 6. Describing a yacht and a career
• Chapter 7. In which the fish inspector sees something that makes him sit up
• Chapter 8. In which Harding comes upon a 'pleasant joke'
• Chapter 9. In which Harding finds that two and two make four
• Chapter 10. In which Mrs Morley attends a reception
• Chapter 11. In which one Chinaman escapes justice and another gets a government job
• Part 2. The present (ten years after)
• Chapter 12. In which we hear of a wedding and a death
• Chapter 13. Which tells of an elopement
• Chapter 14. Showing the perspicacity of Peter McReady
• Chapter 16. In which there are many rumors and a few facts
• Chapter 17. In which Rose's nose is put out of joint and a man reaches the last stages
• Chapter 18. In which we meet Chung Lee again as a winner
• Chapter 19. In which the lieutenant-governor is confronted by a choice
• Part 3. The future
• Chapter 20. In which positions are reversed
• Chapter 21. In which yellow wins
• Chapter 22. In which many things are made clear
• Finis