Professional, political and economic opportunities opened up for the Chinese after World War II. Douglas Jung, the first Canadian MP of Chinese descent, talks of his election campaign and the attitude of older-generation Canadians of Chinese origin toward his political work.

Two families, the Changs and the Lims, tell the story of the Chinese community in Vancouver from widely different perspectives. Chang Yun Ho arrived in Canada in 1908. His generation never integrated into the Canadian mainstream, partly because of the passage of the Asiatic Exclusion Act that fostered racism. By contrast, Liz and Herb Lim were born in Canada and grew up in Chinatown. They now live in the suburbs, totally acculturated to Canadian ways.