The Writing on the Wall : : Chinese and Japanese Immigration to BC, 1920 / / Hilda Glynn-Ward.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©1974 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
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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