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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 ...
1909 Headline: Chinese Leaves Whites Behind in Aviation
We often wonder what if. What if this Asian-American genius of 1909, did not die in the demonstration mishap in China. Would 1900s China have then created a fleet of aircraft? …and would have the outcome of the second world war in Asia been different? Would there have been a war? The Headline shouts. “Chinese Leaves Whites ...
Sun: From Canada to China with love
Retired professor recounts adventures, misadventures as leading scholar on nation’s history By Paula Simons, Postmedia News March 14, 2012 When farm boy Brian Evans arrived at the University of Alberta as a first-year student in 1951, he knew exactly what he wanted to study: Chinese history. When the earnest teen-ager told the acting head of the history department of ...
Chinese migration to Europe
by Suzanne Ma What does it mean to belong somewhere? Does citizenship and a passport help define who you are? Is your identity established by how others see you? Or do you decide that for yourself? I began seeking the answers to my questions when I first moved to China in 2007. When I was 24 years old, ...
DNA tests to foil the modern ‘Paper Son’
Almost a century ago, people from China who sought illegal entry into America and Canada, bought fake birth certificates. These documents, known as “Paper sons” were an effort to enable family reunifications under the then harsh discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act of the United States (1882), and of the Chinese Immigration Act of Canada (1923). Although each ...
Kudos to Patrick Chan for speaking the Truth
Everyone here at the UGLY Chinese Canadian is a big fan of Patrick Chan, Canada’s pride of the competitive figure skating world. Patrick Chan was born on December 31, 1990 in Ottawa, Canada. And that, my round eye friends, means Patrick is a Canadian born Chinese … a CbC. A Banana to you wise readers. Patrick is the 2011 ...
Event: Book launch “The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking”
You are cordially invited to meet Iris Chang’s parents, Profs Ying Ying & Shau Jin Chang on June 3 & June 5, 2011 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Iris Chang’s mother, Prof. Ying Ying Chang has just written a book titled, “The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking”. The Woman ...
The Chinatown Bus – linking migrant workers across America
A month earlier, our blog received a note on the role of inter urban buses, shuttling Chinese workers between various locations throughout America. We’ve posted this note on today’s blogpost below, titled, “Transcultural Growth Beyond Ethnic Communities: Chinatown Bus in America” Our blog was also forwarded another note last week, regarding the tragic bus accident that ...
Limbaugh sees a Scrotum in the mirror
A few weeks back, the President of China, Mr Hu Jintao made a visit to the U.S., and was greeted by the President of the United States, Mr Barrack Obama. On TV later that evening, some fat dick by the name of Rush Limbaugh got bent out of shape – from a fat blob to that ...
Don’t like Hospice? Then, leave Canada.
Over the past few weeks, our UGLY Chinese Canadian blog has been receiving a number of requests to say something about the people who are rejecting the hospice on Vancouver’s west side. Apparently there’s been some persons of Chinese ancestry who’ve been squawking, something along the lines that they don’t want a dead people thing in ...
YOU go home to China!!! You Slut!
You Stupid! Go home! Go to China! You go China!!! You Garbagee! You stupid… go home China! Go to China! No, these weren’t words tossed from a racist towards an Asian, but words from two Chinese women screaming at each other on the metro Vancouver’s rapid transit train (Skytrain). We had thought it was the usual Taiwanese v/s Cantonese v/s ...
UBC digital collection: the Chinese in BC 1850-1950
Here’s a link to a collection of digital resources relating to the Chinese experience in British Columbia, 1850 to 1950. From the University of British Columbia http://www.library.ubc.ca/chineseinbc/about.html : Digitized holdings from the Chung Collection include photographs, documents and ephemera from Chinese-Canadian communities in British Columbia , including educational materials such as phrase books, anti-Asian ephemera generated by ...
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