During periods of great change, a question is worth a lot even if answers don’t last very long. And, as communication scholars, you already know that today’s media is changing even as you read this, especially the medium of television. This book asks important questions for readers who want to learn more about how television [...]
The Insanity of It All Duration: 25:15, Producer/Director: Tony Chan The Insanity of It All (2002) is a sequel to Sweet Heat. The film chronicled the lives of Vietnam war veterans, Don Lau and Cole Lew after they returned to the United States. Lau and Lew talked about their lives in Vietnam and in America [...]
Li Qingzhao (1084 – ca. 1156) of the Northern Song dynasty is the most brilliant woman writer in Chinese history. While her essays are excellent specimens of Chinese prose, she is nowadays most loved for her poetry by readers around the world. Students in China could often recite a couple of lines from her best [...]
Sweet Heat (1998). Duration: 28:40, Producer/Director: Tony Chan 60,000 men and women of Asian ancestry served in the United States armed forces during the Vietnam war. Many fought as gunners, helicopter pilots and infantrymen. Some worked as nurses, journalists and other support staff. Fort Lewis, WA was often the military base that Asian American soldiers [...]
The Panama (1996) is a documentary film chronicling the Chan family of Victoria, B.C. One of the oldest Chinese families in Victoria, they owned and operated several restaurants, ending with the Panama Cafe on Government Street from around 1930 until 1967. Chan Dun, at the age of twelve, landed in Victoria in the 1880s, and [...]
A film profile of four Chinese cafe owners and their families living and flourishing in Outlook, Humboldt, and Eston, Saskatchewan. It looks at the role of women and sexism, historical and contemporary racism, business acumen, civic spirit and neighborhood relations. Includes a segment on Wayne Mah, the prairie’s only Chinese-Canadian mayor in 1985. Rare still [...]
America’s war in Vietnam is over. But the scars of that war remain with many Asian Americans who were sent there. More than 60,000 Asian Americans served in the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War. Many who lived through this lost war in Southeast Asian still suffer silently from post traumatic stress disorder. [...]
Danielle Newton, Wilfred W. Fong, Nancy Van Leuven. Communications For Everyday Life. Toronto: Ginger Post Inc., 2010. Order from Ginger Post Inc.: order@gingerpost.com From the Preface This book grew out of the need for an updated introductory textbook about Communication Studies; specifically, one author argued that any work must include important issues – such as [...]
Wei Djao’s latest book is about Li Qingzhao (~ 1084 – 1156 CE) of the Song dynasty who is indisputably the most brilliant woman writer in Chinese history. This biography offers an insightful interpretation of her character and a new translation of some of her writings. Wei Djao’s English rendition consistently captures the poet’s elegance, [...]
Nancy Van Leuven. Dao of Communication. Toronto: Ginger Post Imprints, 2009, 350 pages. Order from Ginger Post Inc.: order@gingerpost.com From the Preface: Utilizing D.C. Lau’s translation of the Dao De Jing, this edited version of the Dao of Communication is one of the first attempts to tie philosophy with introductory communication topics. Linking traditional learning [...]