POLIS 210: Canada and the World

Claws of the Pandatells the story of Ottawa's failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadian politics, academia, and media, and to exert control over Canadians of Chinese heritage. Jonathan Manthorpe gives a detailed description of the CCP's campaign to embed agents of influence in Canadian business, politics, media and academia. The book traces the evolution of the Canada-China relationship over nearly 150 years.

With the number of Chinese living outside of its borders expected to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics around the globe. Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada. Contributors map out historic, cultural and symbolic, highly skilled, family and gendered, and transnational mobilities.

In Contesting White Supremacy, Timothy Stanley combines Chinese sources and perspectives with an innovative theory of racism and anti-racism to construct an alternative reading of racism in British Columbia. His work demonstrates that education was an arena in which white supremacy confronted Chinese nationalist schooling and where parents and students contested racism.

Kay Anderson argues that "Chinatown" is a Western construction, illustrative of a process of cultural domination that gave European settlers in North America and Australia the power to define and shape the district according to their own images and interests. Anderson wrote this book as part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History series.

China Hands is a compilation of articles originally published in The Globe and Mail. They were written by the paper's Peking-based correspondents between 1959 and 1984.

The subject of this moving biography is James Gareth Endicott, a Canadian clergyman who was labelled the most reviled Canadian of the year in 1947 for his support of the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Communist Party of China.. This is an important book on the Chinese Communist Revolution, ideological controversy in the West, and an extraordinary man.

For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed.