Here’s an interesting conference coming up at Ryerson University in Toronto on July 24 – 26, “Counter Cultures: An international conference on exploring shopkeeping in the Chinese diaspora”.

Keynote speakers: Dr. Keith Lowe, Dr. Lily Cho and Dr. Jack Tchen

For more info on this subject see Searching for Mr. Chin , Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature by Ann-Marie Lee-Loy.

For more by Keith Lowe see From Guantanamo to Jamaica