The History of Canada/China Relations and a Historical Visit of the Montreal Chinatown

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Ever since it was founded, Quebec has had links to China. Through missionaries or trade, relationships were built within the context of colonialization, in which France and England were major actors worldwide. These two colonial powers thus linked Quebec with China through their wars of conquest, as well as their attempts at religious and intellectual conversion. Relations between Quebec and China mirror the world’s rapid transformation from the Enlightenment to the Cold War.

Lecturer:

Serge Granger
Associate Professor
History and Political Science
Université de Sherbrooke

Guest speaker:

Elisabeth Papineau
Guest researcher
Deparment of Antropology
Université de Montréal
Researcher at The Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (INSPQ)

Mandatory readings :

 EVANS, Paul M. and FROLIC, Michael (ed), Reluctant adversaries:Canada and the People’s Republic of China: 1949-1970, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991, pp. 3-37.