Chinese-Canadian relations in modern historiography

Abstract

From a historiography perspective, this study comprehensively analyses literature on the history of China-Canada relations in three languages, Chinese, English and Russian, in different databases. The article adopts the methods of documentary analysis and comparative study to compare the narratives, analyses and interpretations in the literature resources of the three other languages on the same topic to reveal the differences in the scholars' understandings and interpretations of the development of China-Canada relations in different cultural and academic contexts. By horizontally comparing the historical sources and literature in the three languages, this study aims to construct a more comprehensive, multifaceted, and multi-perspective narrative framework of the history of China-Canadian relations. It is found that despite the differences in perspectives and emphases of the literature in the three languages in interpreting China-Canadian relations, together they constitute an in-depth understanding of the complexity of the history of the relationship between the two countries and provide a more diversified range of research ideas for future comparative studies and reflections on the history of international relations