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Education and Career
Education:
PhD in Modern Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley, 1961
Employment Experience:
University of Kansas, 1960-69: Instructor to Associate Professor of History
University of British Columbia, 1969-92: Professor of History
University of British Columbia, 1992-present: Professor Emeritus
Other recent work experience:
Principal Organizer, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia, 2002-2004. Founding President, 2004-2005.
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Honors
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Publications
“Spanish Records in the Philippine National Archives.” Hispanic American Historical Review 35 (1955), 77-89.
“The Chinese in the Philippine Economy and Society, 1850-1898.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1961.
“Early Chinese Economic Influence in the Philippines: 1850-1898.” Pacific Affairs 35.3 (1962), 275-85.
“The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History.” Journal of Southeast Asian History 5.1 (1964), 62-100.
The Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850-1898. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
“Economic Nationalism and the Chinese in the Philippines.” In Charles O. Houston, ed., Proceedings of the First Colloquium on the Philippines, 29-36. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan State University, 1969.
“Japanese Land Policies in Taiwan, 1895-1945.” Agricultural History 43.3 (1969), 369-78.
“The Chinese in Philippine History.” Asia 4.18 (1970), 1-15.
“The Taiwan Peasant Movement, 1923-1932: Chinese Rural Radicalism under Japanese Development Programs.” Pacific Affairs 48.4 (1975-76), 558-82.
“Land Reform in Mainland China and Taiwan.” Peasant Studies 7.4 (1978), 250-62.
“Spanish Frontiers in the Western Pacific, 1662-1700.” In William S. Coker, ed., Hispanic-American Essays in Honor of Max Leon Moorhead, 12-36. Pensacola, Fla.: Perdido Bay Pr., 1979.
“New Directions in Chinese Historiography, Reappraising the Taiping: Notes and Comment.” With Alex Volkoff, Pacific Affairs 52.3 (1979), 479-90.
“Some Problems in Chinese Organizational Development in Canada, 1923-1937.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 11.1 (1979), 88-98.
“Chinese and Canadian Influences on Chinese Politics in Vancouver, 1900-1947.” B.C. Studies 45 (1980), 37-55.
“Chinese Associations in Canada, 1923-1947.” In Victor Ujimoto and Gordon Hirabayashi, eds., Visible Minorities and Multiculturalism: Asians in Canada, 23-31. Toronto: Butterworths, 1980.
“Continuities in Land Tenure, 1900-1940.” In Emily Ahern and Hill Gates, eds., The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society, 212-38. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981.
“Another Look at Land and Lineage in the New Territories, CA. 1900” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 21 (1981), 25-42.
“Chinese Organizations and the Canadian Political Process: Two Case Studies.” In Jorgen Dahlie and Tissa Fernando, eds., Ethnicity, Power and Politics in Canada, 172-76. Toronto: Methuen, 1981.
From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada. With Harry Con et al. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1982.
“Qing (Ch’ing) Land Tenure in South China, 1644-1912.” Chugoku kindaishi kenkyu 4 (1984), 111-20.
From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Canadian Communities in Canada, Edgar Wickberg, ed. and principal author. With Ronald Con, Harry Con, Graham Johnson and William Willmott (Toronto:McClelland and Stewart, 1982). (In print until 2002). Chinese translation:Shanghai, 1988.
“Chinese Organizations and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia and North America since 1945: A Comparative Analysis.” In Jennifer Cushman and Wang Gungwu, eds., Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II, 303-18. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1988.
“Some Comparative Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Ethnicity in the Philippines.” Asian Culture 14 (1990), 23-37.
The Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850-1898 (Yale, 1965; Ateneo de Manila, 2000). Chinese translation: Manila, 1990.
“Notes on Some Contemporary Social Organizations in Manila Chinese Society.” In Aileen S.P. Baviere and Teresita Ang See, eds., China, Across the Seas: The Chinese as Filipinos, 43-66. Quezon City: Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, 1992.
“Overseas Chinese Adaptive Organizations, Past and Present.” In Ronald Skeldon ed., Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese, 69-84. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
"The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History," Journal of Southeast Asian History, 1964, pp 62-100. Chinese translation: Manila, 2001.
“Anti-Semitism and Chinese Identity Options in the Philippines.” In Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, eds., ESSENTIAL OUTSIDERS: CHINESE AND JEWS IN THE MODERN TRANSFORMATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE, 153-83. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
'The Philippines," (pp 187-199); "Overseas Chinese Organizations" (pp 83-87,90-91); "Ethnicity," (pp 114-121), in Lynn Pan, ed, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CHINESE OVERSEAS (Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, 1998; 2ND ed. 2006)
“Localism and the Organization of Overseas Migration in the Nineteenth Century.” In Gary Hamilton, ed., COSMOPOLITAN CAPITALISTS: HONG KONG AND THE CHINESE DIASPORA AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 35-55. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
"Overseas Chinese: The State of the Field," Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2002 (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 2002), 1-8
"Hokkien-Philippines Familial Transnationalism, 1949-1975," in READING CHINESE TRANSNATIONALISMS: SOCIETY, LITERATURE, FILM, ed. Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006), 17-36
“The New Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia.” Chinese America:
History and Perspectives (2007), 215-218.
“Global Chinese Migrants and Performing Chineseness.” Journal of Chinese Overseas, 3.2 (2007), 177-93.
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