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Is there more to the Richmond racist graffiti? Yesterday, we received an email from Adrian MacNair, a blogger colleague, whom we had ...
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the UGLY Chinese Canadian is evolving howdy folks... Apologies for our blog's broken links and stuff. We've added 2 new contributors to ...
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Are Asians smarter? it depends on how it’s measured… Vancouver over the past few decades has seen a marked demographic shift in terms ...
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Good bye to roof top urban farm in Chinatown The following article, reposted with permission from CityCaucus.com : Cancelled urban farm project bred bad ...
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4 Niggers and a Chink (!?) owch. Wow. That's quite the offensive moniker isn't it? Originally known as "Little Daddy and the ...
More information...coming to giant Imax screen: John Woo’s “Flying Tigers”
We had earlier written a post about the American volunteer fighter group, the “Flying Tigers“. Now we’ve just learned an epic production is in the works for the large format Imax screen, and will be partnered by respected Chinese-American director John Woo and his long time friend, producer Terence Chang. From the Hollywood reporter: Imax to partner on...
Website shares untold history of Canada’s national railway
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun, Saturday, August 28, 2010. It’s reposted here in it’s entirety on our blog, courtesy of the Vancouver Sun: New website honours long-ignored Chinese who built the CPR by Stephen Hume Vancouver Sun August 28, 2010 Perched in a wooden lift-top desk with working ink well, at first in a...
The Ties that Bind: virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s history
The Ties That Bind virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s official history TORONTO, August 25, 2010 Chinese Canadians are making history with a more inclusive interpretation of Canada’s official story in a new online exhibit that draws attention to their contributions in achieving the national dream – the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Nearly 125 years since the driving...
50 years of Filipino-Canadian history
Yesterday’s post on “reason no. 77, why I love Vancouver”, referenced my Filipino-Canadian part of my extended family. Filipinos have also had a long history here in the Americas, so I’ve decided to re-post an article here by my friend, Carlito Pablo. Historic records show that when the Spanish colonized the Phillippines and began their lucrative trade...
Reason #77 why I love Vancouver
by David It’s been a very beautiful summer here on the westcoast. With the gorgeous summer weather, came the many weddings. That’s why it’s reason number 77. Actually, I hadn’t prepared an earlier 76 reasons, but number “77″ sort of has a nice ring. And I think the Chinese Calendar had the 7th day of the...
Chinese ‘languages’ still at each others’ throats
Chinese “languages“? No. It’s actually, Chinese dialects. But to the outside observer, it may as well be complete different languages, as the sounds, intonations and even colloquialisms are so far and different from one another. Cantonese v/s Mandarin v/s Toishanese v/s other dialects. It seems that the Cantonese are perhaps, a bit more stubborn than are some other...
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coming to giant Imax screen: John Woo’s “Flying Tigers”
We had earlier written a post about the American volunteer ...
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Website shares untold history of Canada’s national railway
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun, Saturday, ...
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The Ties that Bind: virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s history
The Ties That Bind virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s official history
TORONTO, ...
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50 years of Filipino-Canadian history
Yesterday's post on "reason no. 77, why I love Vancouver", ...
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Reason #77 why I love Vancouver
by David
It's been a very beautiful summer here on the ...
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Chinese ‘languages’ still at each others’ throats
Chinese "languages"?
No. It's actually, Chinese dialects.
But to the outside observer, ...
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Born in the U.S.A.
Our blog follows Asian-American writer Jeff Yang.
Earlier this week, Jeff ...
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