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Excerpted from the article Former Liberal Senator Poy releases new book on Chinese immigrant women
Former Liberal Senator Vivienne Poy is traveling across the country this fall to speak about her new book, Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada.
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Ms. Poy interviewed 28 Chinese immigrant women, ranging from some in their 30s to those in their 90s. She spoke to women in British Columbia and Ontario, the two provinces with the most Chinese immigrants, she noted in her book. “My interviewees were chosen at random, covering the period of immigration from 1950 to 1990. In the interviews, we can see the evolution of the different types of immigrant Chinese women, beginning with those who came direct from the villages of South China and those who migrated from cosmopolitan Hong Kong,” Ms. Poy wrote, noting that in speaking with the women, she chronicles how their lives were in China and how they were redefined in Canada.
Ms. Poy, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong, interviewed the women between 2000 and 2003 and said the book “focuses on women’s agency, their experiences with patriarchy in Chinese culture and how they dealt with different forms of discrimination in China and Canada.”
The first Canadian of Asian descent appointed to the Senate in 1998 serving until September, 2012, Ms. Poy retired early to “become a full-time writer and globe-trotter,” she said in a statement. During her time in the Senate, she introduced a motion, which passed in December 2001, to recognize May as Asian Heritage Month.
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