Archive for April, 2010

First Ever: Chinese Canadian Science Fiction

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 by Staff

First Ever: Chinese Canadian Science Fiction

Four Chinese Canadian science fiction writers, Elaine Chen, Eric Choi, Derwin Mak, and Tony Pi, will be speaking on May 13, 2010, about their stories in the first anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories written by ethnic Chinese outside China.
The Dragon and the Stars is the first anthology of science fiction and [...]

Presentations: Chinese Canada

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 by Staff

Presentations:  Chinese Canada

There will be presentations about the historical roots of Chinese immigration to Canada by novelist Ling Zhang and Anthony Chan, Professor of Communications, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON.
Monday, April 26 2010
2:30 PM
Cheng Yu Tang East Asian Library, University of Toronto
(8th floor , Robarts Library)
130 St. George Street, Toronto
416 978-1025
Professor Anthony B. Chan, [...]

Kong Fuzi/Confucius

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 by Staff

Kong Fuzi/Confucius

Kong Fuzi (孔夫子551 – 479 BCE), popularly known in the West by the Latinized name of Confucius, was a teacher and a philosopher who shaped Chinese culture for the last 2,500 years. His personal name was Qiu (丘) and courtesy name* Zhongni (字 仲尼). He lived towards the end of the period referred [...]

Hawai’i Ways: Perfume

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 by Rochelle Wong delaCruz

Hawai’i Ways: Perfume

Rochelle Wong de la Cruz was born in Hilo, Hawai’I. After graduating from Hilo High School, she left the Islands for the first time in 1963 to enroll at the University of Washington. After her BA, she married, had three children and got an MA from the University of Hawai’i-Manoa before settling back [...]

An Enemy in My Bed

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 by Alan Joe

An Enemy in My Bed

Alan Joe is a retired dentist in Toronto. Excerpted from his memoir, the following is an incident in his youth during World War II, known in China as eight years of Resist Japan War.
On a chilly, dreary day in the winter of 1944, in my ancestral village in Xinhui, province of [...]