areas, as there are well-established Chinese communities in those cities. After the Handover, there was a sharp decline in immigration numbers. since 1997, there has been a steady influx of Chinese from China, Singapore and other locales of the Chinese diaspora. See also History of British Columbia List of heritage buildings in Vancouver Timeline of Vancouver history Notes Further reading Berelowitz, Lance. Dream city: Vancouver and the global imagination (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010). Bjorkman, Anne D., and Mark Vellend. "Defining historical baselines for conservation: ecological changes since European settlement on Vancouver Island, Canada." Conservation Biology 24.6 (2010): 1559-1568. online Clayton, Daniel. Islands of truth: The imperial fashioning of Vancouver Island (UBC Press, 1999). Francis, Daniel. Becoming Vancouver: A History (Harbour Publishing, 2021) online. Kalman, Harold, and Ron Phillips. Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide (UBC Press, 2011) online. Kenny, Nicolas. "Forgotten pasts and contested futures in Vancouver" British Journal of Canadian Studies 29.2 (2016): 175-197. excerpt McCallum, T. Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver, (AU Press, 2014) MacDonald, Norbert. "Seattle, Vancouver, and the Klondike." Canadian Historical Review 49.3 (1968): 234-246. MacDonald, Norbert. "Population Growth and Change in Seattle and Vancouver, 1880-1960." Pacific Historical Review 39.3 (1970): 297-321. online McDonald, Robert A.J., and Jean Barman, eds. Vancouver past: Essays in social history (UBC Press, 1986). Macdonald, B. Vancouver: A Visual History, (Talonbooks, 1992) Ross, Becki. Burlesque west: Showgirls, sex, and sin in postwar Vancouver (University of Toronto Press, 2009). online Thirkell, Fred, and Bob Scullion. Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley (Heritage House, 1996). Vogel, Aynsley, and Dana Wyse. Vancouver: A History in Photographs (Heritage House, 2009) online. Race, ethnicity and class Anderson, Kay J. "Cultural hegemony and the race-definition process in Chinatown, Vancouver: 1880–1980." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 6.2 (1988): 127-149. online Baker, Don. "Koreans in Vancouver: a short history." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 19.2 (2008): 155-180. online Creese, Gillian. "Exclusion or Solidarity? Vancouver Workers Confront the 'Oriental problem'." BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 80 (1988): 24-51. online Kim, Jae Yeon. "Racism is not enough: Minority coalition building in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver." Studies in American Political Development 34.2 (2020): 195-215. online McDonald, Robert AJ. Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 (UBC Press, 2011). Madokoro, Laura. "Chinatown and monster homes: The splintered Chinese diaspora in Vancouver."