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An invitation of Chinese Canadian writers to China in 2013 has created a response of interests in Canada and in China to share and access Chinese Canadian authors. The intention of this page is to provide a resource of Asian Canadian authors and selected titles for educators, institutions, and academic departments in Canada, China and for all those interested.

This first Chinese Canadian author list is a result of the China trip. An Asian Canadian authors and subjects list will follow soon. You are welcome to create a profile page of an Asian Canadian author and contribute to this resource list of Asian and Chinese Canadian authors and titles.

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Page	Extended title	Author	Year of Publication
A Blossom Like No Other	A Blossom Like No Other-Li Qingzhao	Wei Djao	2010
A Grain of Rice		Evelyn Lau	2012
A Kiss Behind the Monkey Bars	A Kiss Behind the Monkey Bars-Stories by Four New Writers	Jennifer Lee	2004
A Spy in the House		Y.S.Lee	2010
A Time of Golden Dragons		Song Nan Zhang	2006
Alphabet Zen	Alphabet Zen-Poems	Bing He	2005
Among		Fred Wah	1972
An Ocean Apart	An Ocean Apart-the Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling	Gillian Chan	2004
Anthropy		Ray Hsu	2004
Articulate Silences	Articulate Silences-Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa	King-kok Cheung	1993
Asian Canada-An ‘Alternate Asian America’?		Lisa R. Mar	6/15/2010
Asian Canadian Cultural Activism		Xiaoping Li	2007
Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography		Eleanor Ty Christl Verduyn Ed.	2008
Awakening the Dragon	Awakening the Dragon-the Dragon Boat Festival	Arlene Chan	2004
Banana Boys		Terry Woo	2005
Baroque A Nova		Kevin Chong	2001
Beauty Plus Pity		Kevin Chong	2011
Being Chinese-Voices from the Diaspora		Wei Djao	2003
Belinda's Rings	Belinda's Rings-A Novel	Corinna Chong	2013
Bellydancer		S.K.Y. Lee	1994
Beyond Silence-Chinese Canadian Literature in English		Lien Chao	1997
Beyond the Dance		Han Goh Chan
Beyond the Golden Mountain	Beyond the Golden Mountain-Chinese Cultural Tradition in Canada	Ban Seng Hoe	1989
Beyond the Moongate	Beyond the Moongate-True Stories of 1920s China	Elizabeth Quan	2013
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures		Vincent Lam	2006
Break the Frame, Like Mangoes in July	Break the Frame, Like Mangoes in July-The Work of Richard Fung. Ed. Helen Lee and Kerri Sakamoto	Lisa Lowe	2002
Brokering Belonging	Brokering Belonging-Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945	Lisa R. Mar	2010
Butcher's Block		Deanna Fong	2008
Certainty		Madeleine Thien	2007
China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry		Judy Fong Bates	1997
China Doll		Marjorie Chan	2004
Chinatown Ghosts		Jim Wong-Chu	1986
Chinatowns-Towns within Cities in Canada		David Chuenyan Lai	1988
Chinese Canadians-Voices from a Community		Evelyn Huang Lawrence Jeffery	1992
Claire and the Bakery Thief		Janice Poon	2008
Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse		Phoebe Tsang	2009
Daughters of the Red Land		Yan Li	1995
Dead Girls		Nancy Lee	2002
Deadly Slipper	Deadly Slipper-A Novel of Death in the Dordogne	Michelle Wan	2005
Desperately Seeking Susans		Yi Mei Tsiang	2013
Dialogue		Pham Truong Thien	1975
Diamond Grill		Fred Wah	1996
Dragon and the Maple Leaf	Dragon and the Maple Leaf-Chinese Canadians in World War II	Wong Marjorie	1994
Enacting the Asian Canadian		Christopher Lee	Winter 2008
Enduring hardship-the Chinese laundry in Canada		Ban Seng Hoe	2003
Enter the Chrysanthemum		Fiona Tinwei Lam	2009
Escape to Gold Mountain	Escape to Gold Mountain-a Graphic History of the Chinese in North America	David Wong	2012
Express Funeral and Other Stories		Hien The Chu	1996
Fish Bones		Gillian Sze	2009
For Today I am a Boy		Kim Fu	2014
Forage		Rita Wong	2007
From China to Canada	From China to Canada-A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada	Harry Con Ronald J. Con Graham Johnson Edgar Wickberg William Willmott	1982
Future Asians	Future Asians-Migrant Speculations, Repressed History & Cyborg Hope	Larissa Lai	Fall 2004
Ghost Train		Paul Yee	1996
Ghostly Foundations	Ghostly Foundations-Multicultural Space and Vancouver’s Chinatown in Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café	Daniel Martin	2013
Gingko Kitchen		Louise Bok	1997
Gold Mountain-The Chinese in the New World		Anthony B.Chan	1983
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity	Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity-Marking Asian American Differences	Lisa Lowe	1991
How the Chinese Created Canada		Adrian Ma	2010
Hui Gui: A Chinese Story		Elsie Sze	2005
Inalienable Rice	Inalienable Rice-A Chinese & Japanese Canadian Anthology,	Garrick Chu Sean Gunn Paul Yee Ken Shikaze Linda Uyehara Hoffman Rick Shiomi Ed.	1973
Ingratitude		Ying Chen	1998
Interracial Encounters	Interracial Encounters-Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937	Julia H. Lee	2011
Intimate Distances		Fiona Tinwei Lam	2002
Is A Door		Fred Wah	2010
Is There An Asian Canadian Theatre in Vancouver?	Is There An Asian Canadian Theatre in Vancouver? Asian Canadian Theatre. Ed. Nina Lee Aquino and Ric Knowles	Adrienne Wong	2011
Jin Guo	Jin Guo-Voices of Chinese Canadian Women	Chinese Canadian National Council Women's Book Committee.
Lady in the Red Dress		David Yee	2010
Lardeau		Fred Wah	1965
Li Ka-shing-Hong Kong's Elusive Billionare		Anthony B.Chan	1996 and 2007
Lig & Bittle		Elyne Quan Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull	2002
Like Mangoes in July	Like Mangoes in July-The Work of Richard Fung	Helen Lee Kerri Sakamoto	2002
Linking African American Ghettos and Chinatowns in 19th Century America	Linking African American Ghettos and Chinatowns in 19th Century America-Implications for Criminological Theory	Phillip Chong Ho Shon Anthony B. Chan	2010
Little Daily Miracles	’Little Daily Miracles’-Global Desires, Haunted Memories, and Modern Technologies in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty.” Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature. Ed. Johanna C. Kardux and Doris Einsiedel	Eleanor Ty	2010
Lives of the Family		Denise Chong	2013
Living Under Plastic		Evelyn Lau	2010
Love Figures		Sam Cheuk	2008
Maggie's Chopsticks		Alan Woo	2012
Many Mouthed Birds		Bennett Lee Jim Wong-Chu	1991
Maps of Our Bodies & the Borders We Have Agreed Upon		Taien Ng-Chan	2005
Miah	Miah-Stories	Julia Lin	2012
Migration Songs		Anna Quon	2009
Millennium Messages	Millennium Messages-An Anthology of New Asian Canadian Expressions	Kenda D.Gee Wei Wong ACWW Society of Edmonton Ed.	1997
Mountain		Fred Wah	1967
Mrs. Spring Fragrance		Sui Sin Far	2011
Mutant Bodies in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl	Mutant Bodies in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl-Challenging the Alliance Between Science and Capital	Tara Lee	2004
Noise from the Laundry		Weyman Chan	2008
Oedipal Dreams		Evelyn Lau	1992
Once Upon a Full Moon		Betty Quan	2007
Other Women		Evelyn Lau	1996
Out of the Blue	Out of the Blue-a Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness	Jan Wong	2012
Passage to Promise Land		Vivienne Poy	2013
Performing Asian Canadian	Performing Asian Canadian-The Theatrical Dimension of a Grassroots Activism, Asian Canadian Theatre.	Xiaoping Li Ed.Aquino Nina Lee Knowles Rick Knowles	2011
Perpetually Cool-The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961		Anthony B.Chan	2003
Ralphy to the Rescue		Trevor Lai	2007
Reading Asian American Literature	Reading Asian American Literature- From Necessity to Extravagance	Sau-ling Wong Cynthia Wong	1993
Red China Blues	Red China Blues-My Long March From Mao to Now	Jan Wong	1996
Remapping Vancouver	Remapping Vancouver:Composing Urban Spaces in Contemporary Asian Canadian Writing	Glenn Deer	2011
Righting Canada's Wrongs	Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century	Arlene Chan	2014
Room for All of Us	Room for All of Us-Surprising Stories of Loss and Transformation	Adrienne Clarkson	2011
Ru		Kim Thuy	2009
Runaway	Runaway-Diary of a Street Kid	Evelyn Lau	1988
Salt Fish Girl		Larissa Lai	2002
Sapphic Traffic	Sapphic Traffic-hort Fiction	Suki Lee	2003
Slant		Andy Quan	2001
Smoke and Fire-The Chinese in Montreal		Kwok B. Chan	1991
So Far		Fred Wah	1991
Sojourners in the North		Lily Chow	2000
Speculations and (dis)identification	Speculations and (dis)identification-Notes on Asian Canadian Women Writers	Karyln Koh	1996
Strike the Wok	Strike the Wok-New Chinese Canadian Anthology	Lien Chao Jim Wong-Chu Ed.	2003
Swallowing Clouds	Swallowing Clouds-An Anthology of Chinese Canadian Poetry 1999	Andy Quan Jim Wong-Chu Ed.	2002
Sweet Devilry		Yi Mei Tsiang	2012
Tales From Gold Mountain	Tales From Gold Mountain-Stories of the Chinese in the New World	Paul Yee	1989 1990
The Asianadian	The Asianadian-An Asian Canadian Magazine	Anthony B.Chan	1978-1985 24 issues Vols 1-6
The Better Mother		Jen Sookfong Lee	2011
The China Challenge		Vivienne Poy Ed.	2011
The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now	The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now	Arlene Chan	2013
The Chinese in Canada		Jin Tan Patricia Roy	1985
The Chinese in Toronto from 1878	The Chinese in Toronto from 1878-From Outside to Inside the Circle	Arlene Chan	2011
The Concubine's Children		Denise Chong	1994
The Dream of Gold Mountain		Julia Kwong	1991
The Evergreen Country	The Evergreen Country-A Memoir of Vietnam	Thuong Vuong-Riddick	2007
The Excluded Wife		Yuen-Fong Woon	1998
The Family China		Ann Shin	2013
The Fragrant Garden	The Fragrant Garden	Day's Lee	2005
The Fred Wah Digital Archive		Susan Rudy Compiler	2013
The Grasslands: A Novel of Adventure Set Upon His Majesty’s New World		Kenneth Tam	2008
The Headmaster's Wage		Vincent Lam	2012
The Hidden Treasure		Rouwen Wang	2007
The Jade Peony		Wayson Choy	1995
The Measure of a Man		JJ. Lee	2011
The Moon Festival	The Moon Festival-a Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival	Arlene Chan	1999
The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul		Marty Chan	2006
The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories		Kwai-yun Li	2006
The Place Called Absence		Evelyn Huang Lawrence Jeffery	2000
The Rainbow Rocket		Fiona Tinwei Lam	2013
The Same Woman		Thea Lim	2007
The Spirit of the Dragon	The Spirit of the Dragon-the Story of Jean Lumb, a proud Chinese Canadian	Arlene Chan	1997
The Tears of Chinese Immigrants		Yuen Chung Yip	1990
The Walking Boy	The Walking Boy-A Novel	Lydia Kwa	2005
Thief With Leaf		Brian Chan	1988
Three Souls		Janie Chang	2013
Throwaway Daughter		Ting-xing Ye	2003
Title	Extended title	Author	Year of Publication
Transfer and Other Stories		Huamei Han	2004
Tree		Fred Wah	1972
Unfasteneds	Unfastened-Globality and Asian North American Narratives	Eleanor Ty	2010
Vancouver Chinatown, 1960-1980	Vancouver Chinatown, 1960-1980-A Community Perspective	Hayne Y.Wai	1998
Waiting for Saskatchewan		Fred Wah	1985
West Coast Chinese Boy		Sing Lim	1991
When Fox is a Thousand		Larissa Lai	1995
Wild Cat	Wild Cat-Stories of the Cultural Revolution	Jia-lin Peng	1990
Yellow Peril Reconsidered		Paul Wong Ed.	1990
You Are Not Who You Claim		Evelyn Lau	1990

Genre

F(Fiction), NF(Non fiction), P(Poetry), J(Juvenile)

Chan, Anthony B. Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World, NF, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1983.

Chong, Denise. The Concubine's Children: Portrait of a Family Divided, NF, Penguin (Viking) Books, Toronto,1994

Chu, Garrick, Sean Gunn, Paul Yee, Ken Shikaze, Linda Uyehara Hoffman, Rick Shiomi, eds.,Inalienable Rice: A Chinese & Japanese Canadian Anthology, NF, Chinese Canadian Writers Workshop, Vancouver, 1979

Con, Harry, Ronald J. Con, Graham Johnson, Edgar Wickberg, William Willmott,From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada, NF, McClelland and Stewart,Toronto, 1982

Gee, Kenda D., Wei Wong, & ACWW Society of Edmonton, eds., Millennium Messages: An Anthology of New Asian Canadian Expressions, NF, ACWW Society of Edmonton, Edmonton, 1997

Hoe, Ban Seng. Beyond the Golden Mountain: Chinese Cultural Tradition in Canada, NF, Canadian Museum of Civilization,Hull, Quebec: 1989.

Enduring hardship : the Chinese laundry in Canada, NF, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Que.,2003.

Lai, David Chuenyan. Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada, NF, Vancouver, The University of British Columbia Press,Vancouver, 1988

Lai, Larissa. When Fox is a Thousand,F, Press Gang,Vancouvewr, 1995

Lau, Evelyn. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid,F, Harper Collins,Vancouver, 1989

Oedipal Dreams,F, Beach Holme,Vancouver, 1992

You Are Not Who You Claim,F, Porcepic Books,Vancouver, 1990

Lee, JJ. The Measure of a Man, NF, McClelland & Stewart,Toronto,2011

Lee, Jen Sookfong. The Better Mother,F, Knopf Canada,Toronto, 2011

Lee, S.K.Y. Bellydancer, F, Press Gang,Vancouver, 1994

Disappearing Moon Cafe, F, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 1990

Li, Peter S. The Chinese in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Ma, Adrian. How the Chinese Created Canada, Edmonton : Dragon Hill Pub., 2010

Tan, Jin and Roy, Patricia, The Chinese in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1985.

Wah, Fred. "Is A Door" 2010

Diamond Grill, NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1996

So Far, Talonbooks, 1991

Waiting for Saskatchewan, Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1985

Wong-Chu, Jim. Chinatown Ghosts, Pulp Press, 1986

Wong, Rita. Forage, Nightwood Editions, 2007

Yee, Paul. Tales From Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World, Groundwood, Toronto, 1989 (Macmillan Children's Books, 1990)

Ghost Train, Douglas & McIntyre (Groundwood), Toronto, 1996

Authors (Japanese Origin)

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan, Penguin Canada, Toronto, 1983 (Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto 1981, Anchor Books, New York 1994)