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Article: Jiwu Wang. "His Dominion" and the "Yellow Peril": Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967.
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- Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Jiwu Wang. "His Dominion" and the "Yellow Peril": Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006. x, 190pp. $65.00 hc.
This is one of the major studies on the history of Protestant missions to the Chinese in Canada. As hinted at by the title of the book, Jiwu Wang attempts to present the argument that Protestant missions to the Chinese in Canada had only one obvious objective: to convert them into Christians and, therefore, good citizens of Anglo-Saxon Canada. This book tells us stories of missionaries and their relationship with their sending churches. It also informs us of the strategies ...