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I like that the book mentioned a little bit about Chinese spiritual beliefs and music. However, I wish it had gone into more detail about these things. Not many people know or appreciate Ancient Chinese culture and I think we need to make more people aware of it.

This is super interesting, I never knew this side of history. Also it aligns with what I'm learning about in music class right now so it's perfect.

Can we finish one more book or so before the end of the year? Probably!

It's not a numbers game but I am eyeing how large my TBR grew in my spreadsheet (largely due to buying a lot of books from Browsers in february...)

Almon asked: “How will it be now if we pass [this] Act to say that there is a dividing line between Canada and the United States? … Can we any longer point with pride to our flag and say that under that emblem all men, be they Mongolian, Circassian or Caucasian, are equally free?”

George Frisbie Hoar - He opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, describing it as "nothing less than the legalization of racial discrimination"

Denis Kearney (1847–1907) was a California labor leader from Ireland who was active in the late 19th century and was known for his racist views about Chinese immigrants

but the machine was unapologetically marketed and sold as the ‘Iron Chink’ through several iterations with the derogatory name proudly cast in iron on many of them.

Some modern historians have preferred to refer to the apparatus as the ‘Iron Butcher’ to avoid touching on the racism of the era in which it originated (back when white supremacists went on a violent rampage through Vancouver’s Chinatown and Japantown neighbourhoods), ...

Invented in 1903 and introduced to BC canneries in 1906, this industrial tool – so named because it replaced 27 out of every 30 mainly Chinese workers in the industry – was developed in Seattle by Canadian-born Edmund A. Smith and sold up and down the West Coast from Oregon to Alaska....

Iron Chink | industry, racism | An early 20th century machine for butchering salmon that revolutionized the canning industry by increasing efficiencies and lowering costs....