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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 ...
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 ...
Iris Chang: The Chinese in America
The late Iris Chang, on her (then) upcoming 2003 book, “The Chinese in America“. Iris Chang was the writer for the highly regarded historical book, “The Rape of Nanking”, and sadly, Iris passed away a year later, in November of 2004 of suicide. Iris would have celebrated her 44th birthday this March. From the video site: “Author Iris Chang ...
Sun Yat-sen & the 3 People’s Principle
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011 at 7 pm New History Alive Series! “Sun Yat-sen & the Three People’s Principle” De Anza College 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 . Charlie Chin will perform the latest History Alive! series: “Sun Yat-sen and the Three People’s Principles” this Thursday! Featuring the story of Dr. Sun’s life in America before returning to be the first provisional President ...
From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration
For those living on the Canadian westcoast, tune into “From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration” on CBC TV Saturday July 16 at 5 pm (Pacific Daylight Savings time). This documentary was two years in the making and beautifully crafted by Jordan Paterson, Video Producer. The interviews were not only conducted in Vancouver ...
The Kamloops Kid: Canada’s war criminal
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese Imperial Army. Hong Kong had been defended by Allied troops, including a contingent of Canadian soldiers. Some historic accounts claim that the fall of Hong Kong was in a large part, a result of the racist attitudes by the British officers. They (British ...
Killing and Driving out the Chinese, 125 years ago…
Mayor of Bellingham is the latest to make a formal apology to the Chinese community for the Expulsion of Chinese that happened 125 years ago by Bill Chu, Founder, Canadians For Reconciliation Society 加 和 會 Background: West Coast North America was at the height of epic discrimination against Chinese in the late 19th century, with Canada’s ...
Event (May 27th): the Chinese & early development of the Maritimes
Albert Lee will be in Vancouver on May 27th to share his insight on the history of the role of the Chinese in the early development of the Maritimes. The public is invited to attend a dinner and presentation at Foo’s Ho Ho Restaurant at 6:00pm hosted by the Friends of Foo’s Ho Ho and the ...
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 ...
Ancient Chinese language sounds like Toisan dialect
Many of North America’s pioneer Chinese communities originated from the southern Chinese region in Guangdong province in an area collectively known as the “four counties”. According to the Chinese Historical Society of America, more than 90% of the early Chinese to North America originated from the “four counties”. Multi-generational Americans and multi-generational Canadians of Chinese ancestry ...
Gary Mar, Alberta’s next PC leader?
Gary Mar is a well respected political leader in western Canada. His family has been in Canada for over 100 years, earning him the recognition as a real Banana. After serving the province of Alberta with various portfolios, and as Alberta’s rep in Washington D.C., Mr. Mar is now running for the top job in Alberta’s ...
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