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Finding Memories, Tracing Routes: Chinese Canadian Family Stories (2006)
Authors: Shirley Chan, Belinda Hung, Roy Mah, Dan Seto, Hayne Wai, Candace Yip, Gail Yip, Ken Yip
Preface by: Dr. Jean Barman
Afterword by: Dr. Henry Yu
Editor: Brandy Lien Worrall
A groundbreaking collection capturing the diversity of British Columbia and Canada, showing the impact of personal writing for understanding our collective history. Created as part of a six-week community writing workshop, the eight stories demonstrate the power of finding our community history in the lives and deaths of those who came before us. This touching and evocative anthology is a must read for all Canadians who want to understand the central place of Chinese Canadians in our shared past.
Finding Memories, Tracing Routes: Chinese Canadian Family Stories was also translated into Chinese.
Authors: Shirley Chan, Belinda Hung, Roy Mah, Dan Seto, Hayne Wai, Candace Yip, Gail Yip, Ken Yip
Preface by: Dr. Jean Barman
Afterword by: Dr. Henry Yu
Editor: Brandy Lien Worrall
A groundbreaking collection capturing the diversity of British Columbia and Canada, showing the impact of personal writing for understanding our collective history. Created as part of a six-week community writing workshop, the eight stories demonstrate the power of finding our community history in the lives and deaths of those who came before us. This touching and evocative anthology is a must read for all Canadians who want to understand the central place of Chinese Canadians in our shared past.
Finding Memories, Tracing Routes: Chinese Canadian Family Stories was also translated into Chinese.
Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian & Aboriginal Potluck (2007)
Contributors: Margaret Gallagher, Brandy Lien Worrall, Jacquie Adams, Jennifer Chan, Shirley Chan, Allan Cho, Grace Chow, Lily Chow, Betty Ho, George Jung, Jackie Lee-Son, Imogene Lim, Roy Mah, Gordy Mark, Lisa Moore, Amy Perreault, Dan Set, Robert Sung, Hayne Wai, Evelyn Wong, Janice Wong, Larry Wong, Todd Wong, Harley A. Wylie, May Yan-Mountain, Candace Yip, Gail Yip, Ken Yip, Henry Yu
Editor: Brandy Lien Worrall
Forward by: Margaret Gallagher
Following the success of the first workshop and the resulting publication, Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian & Aboriginal Potluck is the result of CCHSBC's second community writing workshop with the theme - Food and Family. Twenty-three participants of Chinese Canadian or Aboriginal backgrounds researched, discussed, and wrote their memories of family gatherings, home cooking, restaurant outings, and other stories cooked up by the smells, tastes, sounds, sights, and textures that bring families and communities together.
Contributors: Margaret Gallagher, Brandy Lien Worrall, Jacquie Adams, Jennifer Chan, Shirley Chan, Allan Cho, Grace Chow, Lily Chow, Betty Ho, George Jung, Jackie Lee-Son, Imogene Lim, Roy Mah, Gordy Mark, Lisa Moore, Amy Perreault, Dan Set, Robert Sung, Hayne Wai, Evelyn Wong, Janice Wong, Larry Wong, Todd Wong, Harley A. Wylie, May Yan-Mountain, Candace Yip, Gail Yip, Ken Yip, Henry Yu
Editor: Brandy Lien Worrall
Forward by: Margaret Gallagher
Following the success of the first workshop and the resulting publication, Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian & Aboriginal Potluck is the result of CCHSBC's second community writing workshop with the theme - Food and Family. Twenty-three participants of Chinese Canadian or Aboriginal backgrounds researched, discussed, and wrote their memories of family gatherings, home cooking, restaurant outings, and other stories cooked up by the smells, tastes, sounds, sights, and textures that bring families and communities together.
Learning Chinese in Canada (2009)
UBC INSTRCC, UBC Faculty of Arts, CCHSBC
Featuring excerpts from earlier books published by the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, as well as new essays from UBC researchers, Learning Chinese in Canada outlines a bold and innovative vision of British Columbia and Canada that reimagines the importance of Canada's historical engagement with the Pacific world.
UBC INSTRCC, UBC Faculty of Arts, CCHSBC
Featuring excerpts from earlier books published by the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, as well as new essays from UBC researchers, Learning Chinese in Canada outlines a bold and innovative vision of British Columbia and Canada that reimagines the importance of Canada's historical engagement with the Pacific world.
Chinatown Through A Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow (2019)
Author/Curator: Catherine Clement
Translator: Winnie Chung
Official Website
Chinatown Through A Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow is ia 344-page, full colour, hardcover book that showcases the long-hidden photographs of Vancouver's first and most prolific Chinese photographer. Chow photographed during a tumultuous and transformative time in Canadian history, operating a commercial studio in the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown from 1907-1949. Although he was Chinese, Chow also chronicled the lives of other early, marginalized communities such as Sikh Canadians, Black Canadians, Indigenous residents, and newly-arrived European immigrants. Chow's negatives were discarded when the business closed. Most images in this book were uncovered in private/family collections and highly many remarkable, personal stories from diverse communities.
Book Review by May Q. Wong, The Ormsby Review - June 7, 2020
Interview with Sheryl MacKay on CBC's North by Northwest (starts at 2:07:50) - June 14, 2020
Author/Curator: Catherine Clement
Translator: Winnie Chung
Official Website
Chinatown Through A Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow is ia 344-page, full colour, hardcover book that showcases the long-hidden photographs of Vancouver's first and most prolific Chinese photographer. Chow photographed during a tumultuous and transformative time in Canadian history, operating a commercial studio in the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown from 1907-1949. Although he was Chinese, Chow also chronicled the lives of other early, marginalized communities such as Sikh Canadians, Black Canadians, Indigenous residents, and newly-arrived European immigrants. Chow's negatives were discarded when the business closed. Most images in this book were uncovered in private/family collections and highly many remarkable, personal stories from diverse communities.
Book Review by May Q. Wong, The Ormsby Review - June 7, 2020
Interview with Sheryl MacKay on CBC's North by Northwest (starts at 2:07:50) - June 14, 2020
gold mountain series
Mami: My Grandmother's Journey (2010)
Author: Rebeca Lau
Author Rebeca Lau invites readers to journey with her as she returns to Tapachula, Mexico, the southern border city that is still home after two decades away. As Mami reminisces about family history dating back to 1919, she cooks up familiar Chinese and Mexican delicacies. Through this, the complexities of belonging and not belonging to China, Mexico, and Canada become clearer to Rebeca. This unconventional tale of a Chinese woman interweaves the past and present of three generations living under one roof, filled with cultural clashes between Chinese and Mexican traditions.
Author: Rebeca Lau
Author Rebeca Lau invites readers to journey with her as she returns to Tapachula, Mexico, the southern border city that is still home after two decades away. As Mami reminisces about family history dating back to 1919, she cooks up familiar Chinese and Mexican delicacies. Through this, the complexities of belonging and not belonging to China, Mexico, and Canada become clearer to Rebeca. This unconventional tale of a Chinese woman interweaves the past and present of three generations living under one roof, filled with cultural clashes between Chinese and Mexican traditions.
Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood (2011)
Author: Larry Wong
Dim Sum Stories, written by Larry Wong, a local historian and past president of CCHSBC, is about his 1940s-1960s childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown. A close friend of Wayson Choy (1939-2019), author of The Jade Peony, Wong's personal short stories reveal a world filled with people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This is an engaging memoir, filled with childhood memories of life in a Chinese Canadian family whose father came to Vancouver in 1911. But it is more than a personal memoir; it is also a social and cultural history of Vancouver's Chinatown and its denizens in their homes, shops, restaurants, hotels, schoolrooms and social clubs, told up-close-and-personal, by a master storyteller.
Author: Larry Wong
Dim Sum Stories, written by Larry Wong, a local historian and past president of CCHSBC, is about his 1940s-1960s childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown. A close friend of Wayson Choy (1939-2019), author of The Jade Peony, Wong's personal short stories reveal a world filled with people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This is an engaging memoir, filled with childhood memories of life in a Chinese Canadian family whose father came to Vancouver in 1911. But it is more than a personal memoir; it is also a social and cultural history of Vancouver's Chinatown and its denizens in their homes, shops, restaurants, hotels, schoolrooms and social clubs, told up-close-and-personal, by a master storyteller.
Chilliwack's Chinatowns: A History (2011)
Author: Dr. Chad Reimer
In a vivid look at Chinatowns nearly lost to the past, historian Dr. Chad Reimer follows dual trails of arson in 1921 and 1934 Chilliwack to discover a slew of historical characters and stories. Chinese, Caucasians, and First Nations intermingle before and after these unexpected fires: their lives of success, labour, leisure, and family animate Chinatown North and Chinatown South. Chilliwack's Chinatowns: A History demonstrate the power of a historian-detective's determine sleuthing to uncover a forgotten history and restore our common past.
Author: Dr. Chad Reimer
In a vivid look at Chinatowns nearly lost to the past, historian Dr. Chad Reimer follows dual trails of arson in 1921 and 1934 Chilliwack to discover a slew of historical characters and stories. Chinese, Caucasians, and First Nations intermingle before and after these unexpected fires: their lives of success, labour, leisure, and family animate Chinatown North and Chinatown South. Chilliwack's Chinatowns: A History demonstrate the power of a historian-detective's determine sleuthing to uncover a forgotten history and restore our common past.
Blood and Sweat over the Railway Tracks: Chinese labourers constructing the Canadian Pacific Railway (1880-1885) (2014)
Author: Lily Seiwsan Chow
This is a recollection of an important historical event, the Canadian Pacific Railway construction which employed thousands of Chinese labourers to build the transcontinental railway linking this country from coast to coast. In her writing, Chow reveals the reasons for constructing the railway, why and how the Chinese labourers were recruited and transported from Guangdong to various construction sites in British Columbia. She illustrates the difficult and dangerous tasks that the Chinese labourers had to perform bearing testimonies to the challenges, hardships, struggles, and endurance of these workers. Despite the hard labour, these men displayed excellent work ethic, and were diligent and dependable people. Included are some poems and verses by a several Chinese labourers and their family members to show their anguish, anxiety, and longing - human feelings and emotions that had been repressed. This book is a testament to remarkable endeavour, generous spirit, sacrifices and contributions of the Chinese labourers that helped build the CPR.
Author: Lily Seiwsan Chow
This is a recollection of an important historical event, the Canadian Pacific Railway construction which employed thousands of Chinese labourers to build the transcontinental railway linking this country from coast to coast. In her writing, Chow reveals the reasons for constructing the railway, why and how the Chinese labourers were recruited and transported from Guangdong to various construction sites in British Columbia. She illustrates the difficult and dangerous tasks that the Chinese labourers had to perform bearing testimonies to the challenges, hardships, struggles, and endurance of these workers. Despite the hard labour, these men displayed excellent work ethic, and were diligent and dependable people. Included are some poems and verses by a several Chinese labourers and their family members to show their anguish, anxiety, and longing - human feelings and emotions that had been repressed. This book is a testament to remarkable endeavour, generous spirit, sacrifices and contributions of the Chinese labourers that helped build the CPR.
A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung (2019)
Authors: Dr. John Price, Dr. Ningping Yu
Ten years in the making, A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung, finally brings together the complex and intriguing story of Dr. Victoria Chung, the first Asian Canadian, man or woman, to earn a medical degree in Canada. In 1923, Dr. Chung went to China as a medical missionary. As an eye-witness to China's independence struggle, she provided urgent medical care during Second World War, stayed on after the 1949 revolution, and became a legend in her own right until the Cultural Revolution. This book shines the light on a story long forgotten in both China and Canada.
Authors: Dr. John Price, Dr. Ningping Yu
Ten years in the making, A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung, finally brings together the complex and intriguing story of Dr. Victoria Chung, the first Asian Canadian, man or woman, to earn a medical degree in Canada. In 1923, Dr. Chung went to China as a medical missionary. As an eye-witness to China's independence struggle, she provided urgent medical care during Second World War, stayed on after the 1949 revolution, and became a legend in her own right until the Cultural Revolution. This book shines the light on a story long forgotten in both China and Canada.
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Journeys of Hope: Challenging Discrimination & Building on Vancouver Chinatown's Legacies (2018)
Author: Dr. Henry Yu
Co-Editors: Sarah Ling, Szu Shen, Baldwin Wong
Translator: Szu Shen
Created through a continued partnership between the City of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia, this book is an indication both partners' commitments to collaboratively plan and develop a UNESCO World Heritage Status application from Vancouver's Chinatown.
Chinese migrants arrived in what is now known as Canada as early as 1788. Their contributions were often forgotten as part of a long history of racism and discrimination in Canada. Journeys of Hope: Challenging Discrimination and Building on Vancouver Chinatown's Legacies captures the story of how early Chinese migrants helped transform societies around the world, and how Vancouver's Chinatown and other Chinatowns throughout Canada and the Pacific region are living legacies of that transformation.
Written in both English and Chinese, Journeys of Hope reaffirms the importance of multilingual engagement in community building, outreach, and education.
Author: Dr. Henry Yu
Co-Editors: Sarah Ling, Szu Shen, Baldwin Wong
Translator: Szu Shen
Created through a continued partnership between the City of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia, this book is an indication both partners' commitments to collaboratively plan and develop a UNESCO World Heritage Status application from Vancouver's Chinatown.
Chinese migrants arrived in what is now known as Canada as early as 1788. Their contributions were often forgotten as part of a long history of racism and discrimination in Canada. Journeys of Hope: Challenging Discrimination and Building on Vancouver Chinatown's Legacies captures the story of how early Chinese migrants helped transform societies around the world, and how Vancouver's Chinatown and other Chinatowns throughout Canada and the Pacific region are living legacies of that transformation.
Written in both English and Chinese, Journeys of Hope reaffirms the importance of multilingual engagement in community building, outreach, and education.