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Ricepaper
''Ricepaper'' is a Canadian literary magazine with a focus on Asian-Canadian arts and culture. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, it is published quarterly and features articles, literature, poetry, artwork and photography written by or written about writers and artists of primarily Pacific Asian and mixed Asian descent. It was in circulation between 1995 and 2016, before becoming online-only. History ''Ricepaper'' was created in 1995 by Jim Wong-Chu, founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, as a newsletter for its members. Much of the early editorial content explored the marginalized Asian experience in Canada. Over time, the newsletter grew into a full-fledged magazine which has evolved along with its reader base to provide a forum for creative works, interviews, profiles and reviews of the contemporary Asian-Canadian community. The content of each issue is informed by a "theme". Recent issues have focused on space/culture/place, aesthetics, language and cities. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Hoy Price
Lily Hoy Price (January 14, 1930 – February 16, 2021) was a Canadian memoirist. She grew up in Quesnel, British Columbia and was the ninth daughter of twelve children in the Hoy family. She lived in England, Nigeria, Uganda and Nova Scotia. At 70, she took a creative-writing workshop at North Island College and started setting down her life story. Her writing has been published in Ricepaper magazine and in the collection of essays, Verve (2006). Her first book is ''I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter'', stylishly published by Brindle & Glass. The photos are by her father, Chow Dong Hoy, who documented the Cariboo through much of the 20th century.From the Vancouver Sun , July 2009. Price was a member of the |
Rita Wong
Rita Wong (born 1968) is a Canadian poet. Biography Wong grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and currently lives in the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of multiple books of poetry, including ''monkeypuzzle'', ''forage'', and ''undercurrent''. Her work investigates the relationships between social justice, ecology, decolonization, and contemporary poetics. Wong is an associate professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, teaching Critical and Cultural Studies. She has developed a course on Cultivating Ecological, Cross-Cultural, and Interdisciplinary Contemplations of Water. She has also been a visiting instructor at the University of Miami. Education Wong graduated with a BA (Hons) in 1990 from the University of Calgary. She received master's degrees in 1992 from the University of Alberta and in 1996 from the University of British Columbia. In 2002 she received her PhD from Simon Fraser University. Published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woo
Alan Woo is a Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... writer, who won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize in 2013 for his debut book ''Maggie's Chopsticks''."Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', May 5, 2013. His second children's book ''David Jumps In'' was released by Kids Can Press in March 2020. He has also published poetry and short stories in ''Ricepaper'', ''Quills'' and ''Plenitude (magazine), Plenitude''."BC Book Prize winner Alan Woo on writing for children" ''Plenitude (magazine) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien (; born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature'' has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expression and politics inside Cambodia and China, as well as within diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel, ''Do Not Say We Have Nothing'', won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages. Early life and education Thien was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1974 to a Malaysian Chinese father and a Hong Kong Chinese mother. She studied contemporary dance at Simon Fraser University and a earned Master's degree in Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Watada
Terry Watada, born in 1951, is a Toronto writer with many productions and publications to his credit. His publications include Light at a Window (manga, HpF Press and the Greater Toronto National Association of Japanese Canadians 2015), The Game of 100 Ghosts (poetry, Mawenzi Books 2014), The Sword, the Medal and the Rosary (manga, HpF Press and the Greater Toronto NAJC 2013), The TBC: the Toronto Buddhist Church 1995-2010 (history, HpF Press and the TBC 2010), Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press 2007), Obon: the Festival of the Dead (poetry, Thistledown Press 2006), Ten Thousand Views of Rain (poetry, Thistledown Press 2001), Seeing the Invisible (a children’s biography, Umbrella Press 1998), Daruma Days (short fiction, Ronsdale Press 1997), Bukkyo Tozen: a History of Buddhism in Canada (history, HpF Press 1996) and A Thousand Homes (poetry, Mercury Press 1995). Though 2020 was a horrendous year, Terry was at his most prolific. His new poetry collection, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau (; born July 2, 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Biography Evelyn Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 2, 1971 to Chinese-Canadian parents from Hong Kong, who intended for her to become a doctor. Her parents' ambitions for her were wholly irreconcilable with her own; consequently, her home and school lives were desperately unhappy. Lau attended Templeton Secondary School in Vancouver. In 1986 Lau ran away from her unbearable existence as a social outcast and pariah in school and a tyrannized daughter at home. Evelyn Lau began publishing poetry at the age of 12; her creative efforts helped her escape the pressure of home and school. In March 1986, at age 14, Lau left home and spent the next several years living itinerantly in Vancouver as a homeless person, sleeping mainly in shelters, friends' homes, and on the street. She also became involved in prostitution and drug abuse during this time. Despite the chaos of her first two years' independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Lowe
Harvey Lowe (30 October 1918 – 11 March 2009) was a Canadian radio presenter and world yo-yo champion. Early life Lowe was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1918, the youngest of eight daughters and two sons of his parents. Wanting more male children, Lowe's father had also had a son with his concubine, making Lowe the 11th child in the family. His father died when Lowe was three and he was subsequently raised by his father's concubine while his mother supported the family by sewing. Yo-yo champion Lowe bought his first yo-yo in 1931 for 35 cents. He began entering and winning local contests. Promoter Irving Cook noticed Lowe's talent and took him to London, paying his mother $25 each month and providing a tutor for him. Lowe won the first World Yo-Yo Contest at the Empire Theatre on 12 September 1932. He remained in Europe until 1934, mastering over 2000 tricks. His fame provided him with the opportunity to befriend famous people such as the Prince of Wales, Fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuro Shigematsu
Tetsuro Shigematsu (born 1971) is a playwright/performer, filmmaker, comedian, and Canadian radio broadcaster. He was the final host of CBC Radio One's former afternoon series ''The Roundup (radio program), The Roundup'', where he replaced Bill Richardson (radio), Bill Richardson in 2004, making him the first visible minority to host a daily network radio program in Canada. The show completed its final episode on November 4, 2005. Prior to working for CBC Radio, he was a writer for the Canadian TV show ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes''. He is currently a writer for ''The Huffington Post'', and artist-in-residence at Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre. Early life Shigematsu was born in London, England in 1971. His father was from Kagoshima, Japan, and his mother was from Osaka, Japan. His family emigrated to Canada in 1974. He grew up in Surrey, British Columbia, with four siblings, and studied in Montreal. He has a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal), Concordia University. In 1991, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Quan
Andy Quan (born 7 July 1969) is a Canadian author who now lives in Sydney. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact. Quan is openly gay. Quan was born in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. Th ..., British Columbia, Canada. In addition to his writing, Quan is a musician and community activist. He was the first ever full-time paid employee of ILGA and has worked as a policy writer and project manager on issues related to the global HIV epidemic. He now works as an editor and copywriter. Works * (with Jim Wong-Chu) * (short fiction collection) * (poetry) * (erotica) * (poetry) * (journal) References External linksAndy Quan website 1969 births Living people Canadian expatriates in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Marie Fleming
Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, USCAR (nowadays Japan), in 1962 and is of Chinese, Ryukyuan and Australian descent. Her film '' Window Horses'' was released in 2016. Her animated biographical film ''The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam'' (2003) won Best Documentary at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Victoria Independent Film Festival. She is the great-granddaughter of the Chinese magician, acrobat and vaudeville performer Long Tack Sam. Background Fleming has a B.A. in English (Hon) from the University of British Columbia in 1984, and with a B.F.A. (Diploma in animation) from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open University in 1989. Later, she did an M.F.A. at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts in 1992. She completed the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Directors' Lab in 1992 and was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) in Toronto in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine (; born May 31, 1974) is an American cartoonist. He is best known for his ongoing comic book series '' Optic Nerve'' and his illustrations in '' The New Yorker''. Early life Adrian Tomine was born May 31, 1974, in Sacramento, California. His father is Dr. Chris Tomine, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering at California State University Sacramento's Department of Civil Engineering. His mother is Dr. Satsuki Ina, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus at California State University Sacramento's School of Education. His grandmother was Shizuko Ina, who was pictured in Dorothea Lange's photo essay on the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. He also has a brother, Dylan, who is eight years his senior. Tomine is fourth-generation Japanese American. Both of his parents, in spite of being third-generation Americans, spent part of their childhoods incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II. Tomine's parents divor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |