When it came time for kindergarten, like all the other parents, my mother tearfully dropped me off, assuring me that I would have fun. “Are you from China?” the boy next to me whispered. A timid child, my eyes widened…but I didn’t speak. He turned away, and I was relieved that the encounter was over. [...]
In the first half of the 20th century, Japan extended its imperialist hegemony over China. During the Second World War, Japan occupied the eastern half of China. During China’s War of Resistance against Japan in WWII (193-1945), my mother and I faced many desperate times, but there [...]
The most brilliant Chinese woman writer was the topic of a highly interactive lecture at the University of Toronto on February 11, 2010. For 90 minutes, the Council Chamber at the Scarborough was not only filled with recitations of Li Qingzhao poetry, but also with well crafted, relaxed, and straightforward remarks by Professor Wei Djao. [...]
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 [...]
Today, there are many definitions of fengshui (風水). Its literal translation into English is Wind Water. Some people see it as the energy around our living environment while others see it as superstition. Fengshui is considered both an art and a science. It is also metaphysics and it has been practiced [...]
The Kowloon-Canton Railway trains arriving into the University stop in the New Territories always seem to be like bulls entering casually from a corner stall into the ring. It is as if time has taken a breather. People stop and wait while adjusting their head phones. They look absentminded. They stare at the white mist [...]
When Hung-Min Chiang left the island of Taiwan in the 1960s, he never reckoned that he’d spend the next forty years of his life on a Canadian island named after an English prince. But that’s what he did in 1967 when he and his wife, Mei-Chih arrived in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
As someone from [...]
More than 80 guests attended Ginger Post’s press launch
Ancient Chinese bronze vessels from the Shouyang Studio are on exhibit at the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) until August 2, 2009. The Shouyang Studio is the private collection of Chinese Americans George and Katherine Fan.
George Fan grew up and received his education in the West and claimed that [...]
[From DiverseCity] The Greater Toronto Leadership Project and the Diversity Institute in Management and Technology at Ryerson University recently released to a packed room the inaugural DiverseCity Counts Report, highlighting