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‘Fat Years’ Getting the Silent Treatment in Vancouver, BC
By Allan Cho Chan Koonchung’s Fat Years is a hidden gem. “Hidden” in the sense that Mainland China has officially banned the book because of its supposed “radical satire” of China’s political even though it is one of the most popular books to appear in online forums and Hong Kong and Taiwan media as well as ...
GOLD MOUNTAIN: the performance!
GOLD MOUNTAIN WHEN: Oct 23 – Nov 4, 2012 WHERE: Van East Cultural Centre – Historic Theatre ADDED VALUE: Post-show talkbacks: Oct 24 & 30 David Yee is trying to piece together the broken jigsaw of his father’s life. In an epic journey from a small village in China, to war-torn Liverpool, through the horrors of the Atlantic ...
The (only) Chinese song that made North American Pop music charts
“Rose, Rose, I Love You” is the standard English title of the 1940 Chinese popular song “Méigui méigui wǒ ài nǐ” (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你), first recorded by Yao Lee (姚莉). An English-language version whose lyrics have little in common with the original Mandarin was first recorded by Frankie Laine in 1951. It remains the only major popular ...
A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America A new graphic novel ( a fat comic book ) is being released this month! Here’s an inside scoop for our Ugly Chinese Canadian blog readers: the author of this new title, David Wong, is a contributor to this blog! From the publisher’s (Arsenal Pulp ...
Now a word from our Toisan Brother…
For those of you who aren’t familiar of 台山 “Toisan” (or Taishan)… Toisan is the county in southern China, near Canton, where most of the early Chinese to North America hail from. Hell, almost all the who’s who multi-generational Chinese ABC’s and CBC’s (American born Chinese / Canadian born Chinese) have Toisan ancestry. Kuul, eh? English speaking ...
ABC: American Born Chinese – rapper MC Jin
Here’s a banana, that makes many of us bananas, yellow with envy! Rapper MC Jin, can speak (and rap) in Cantonese fluently! *sigh* back to our Cantonese lessons In a wide-ranging interview, rapper Jin speaks to the South China Morning Post about the launch of his all-Cantonese album ABC, his identity, Hong Kong’s music scene, his childhood, and ...
KoreAm magazine asks: Why Are There So Many Good Asian American Cartoonists?
It’s true! America and Canada are chock full of talented Asian-North American graphic novelists (and illustrators!). In the past, our blog has looked at the talents of some of the amazing artists floating about our communities. In Canada, Ricepaper magazine, a quarterly periodical that covers Asian Canadian literature, culture, and the arts has often showcased the talents ...
“Funny as Fuck” Map of Vancouver tells it like it is
New map divides Vancouver into such categories as poor people, gay guys, and old people from the Georgia Straight… by Mike Usinger Are you so politically correct that you find the Onion and all that it stands for riotously offensive? If so, now is the time to stop reading the city’s latest breakdown of who lives where in Lotusland. ...
Mortal Coil presents: Salmon Row. Aug 18 – 28th
At the turn of the last century, right up to the 1960’s, many Asian immigrants to Canada, along with Canada’s First Peoples, found work on the west coast – employed in the fishing industry, working in the canneries. To tell some of their stories, the creative minds at Mortal Coil Performance Society, will be putting ...
New Asia Film Festival: “My Richmond” storytelling
The city of Richmond, B.C. is home to metro Vancouver’s largest Chinese-Canadian population. My Richmond Story: Community Digital Storytelling is a new Festival outreach program produced by the Cinevolution Media Arts Society and supported through the Richmond Arts Centre and its new Media Lab. Grab a camera, let’s tell our stories about Richmond together! This ...
Cartoonist Derek K. Kim
Derek K. Kim is an award-winning Korean-American cartoonist. His debut graphic novel “Same Difference and Other Stories”, was widely shared and enjoyed among our local Asian-Canadian readers’ circles. His website, Lowbright.com shows some of his amazing talent. What I enjoy most about Derek Kim’s work, is his ability to draw wonderful characters – simple, yet full of meaning; ...
Canadian Federal Election: UGLY politician watch
So it’s official. Canada will be seeing it’s 4th federal election in seven years, come Monday, May 2, 2011. Our blog, the UGLY Chinese Canadian, are contacting fellow curmudgeons and other coveted ‘ballot marking’ participants to share thoughts, gossip and hot facts with us over the course of the upcoming months. We hope to focus on the activities ...
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