The four-volume academic masterpiece, *A History of Chinese Immigration in Canada (1858-2001)*, by Canadian historians of Chinese immigrants Li Quan'en, Ding Guo, and Jia Baoheng, was published by China Huaxia Publishing House in May 2022. The book contains 1.64 million words and is divided into four volumes: Social Sciences (Volume 1 & 2) and Culture and Education (Volume 1 & 2).

The Social Sciences Volume (Part 1) comprises 12 chapters, covering the history of Chinese immigration, population, and the development of overseas Chinese communities from 1858 to 1966. Content includes the historical background of Chinese laborers going abroad, the wave of immigration during the period of free entry and exit, Chinese participation in the construction of the Pacific Railway, the establishment of Chinatown and the overseas Chinese community, the occupational and political/economic status of Chinese, anti-Chinese incidents and the resistance of overseas Chinese, the relationship between the Qing government and overseas Chinese, and the relationship between the Nanjing Provisional Government and the Beiyang Government and overseas Chinese; the Canadian government's policies towards overseas Chinese during the period of entry ban and the resistance of overseas Chinese, the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act and its causes, the decline of Chinatown and changes in the overseas Chinese community, and the contributions of Chinese to China's War of Resistance against Japan and World War II; the Canadian government's policies towards overseas Chinese during the period of selective entry, the resistance of Chinese veterans, changes to the Immigration Act, and the development of Chinatown and the overseas Chinese community.

The Social Sciences Volume (Part II) consists of 11 chapters, covering Chinese immigration, population, and the development of overseas Chinese communities from 1967 to 2001. Key chapters include: the reasons and content of the fundamental changes in immigration policy in 1967; the new wave of immigrants from Asian countries of origin; the development of Hong Kong immigrants in Canada; the impact of Taiwanese immigrants on Canada and their community characteristics; the impact of mainland Chinese immigrants on Canada; Southeast Asian refugees; the anti-discrimination struggle of overseas Chinese; the occupations and living conditions of overseas Chinese; the decline and revitalization of old Chinatowns and the birth of new Chinatowns.

The first volume, on education and culture, comprises 12 chapters. It covers Chinese education, newspapers and literature, Chinese drama and architecture, religion, healthcare, and Chinese cemeteries during the periods of free and controlled entry; Chinese schools, Chinese education, newspapers and literature, drama, music, religion, healthcare, and Chinese cemeteries during the period of prohibited entry (1923-1946); and Chinese political participation during the period of selective entry, the significance of Zheng Tianhua's election, Chinese education, newspapers and literature, Chinese drama, music and dance, film, and beauty pageants.

The second volume on culture and education comprises 11 chapters, detailing Chinese-language newspapers, radio stations, television stations, Canadian Chinese literature and its masterpieces and awards, new literary societies and their cultural activities from 1967 to 2001, historical artifacts preserved by Chinese-Canadian historical societies, museums and associations, the inheritance and promotion of traditional Chinese arts, Chinese music, dance, drama, acrobatics, folk arts, film and beauty pageants, Chinatown archways and Chinese monuments, the development of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, multicultural policies and Chinese political participation, and the status of overseas Chinese in the fields of science and technology and trade.

This four-volume set includes bilingual tables of major place names and provincial/municipal names, major personal names, major schools, newspapers, theaters and drama clubs, and some organizations and companies. The authors, Li Quan'en (1937-2018), were former professor emeritus at the University of Victoria and are known as the "father of Chinatown studies in Canada"; Ding Guo was a Canadian critic and historian, and producer and commentator for the Mandarin department of OMNI television; and Jia Baoheng was a scholar of Canadian Chinese immigration history and a Chinese-Canadian writer.

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