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==Jim Wong-Chu== | |||
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Jim Wong-Chu (born 1949) is a published poet, author, editor, and historian known as a co-founder of the [http://asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Asian_Canadian_Writers%27_Workshop_(ACWW) Asian Canadian Writers Workshop], [http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Ricepaper_Magazine Ricepaper Magazine], Pender Guy Radio Program, Asia Canadian Performing Arts Resource (ACPAR), literASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing, and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Festival. He has also co-edited several anthologies of [http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Authors Asian Canadian writers]. | Jim Wong-Chu (born 1949) is a published poet, author, editor, and historian. He is well- known as a co-founder of the [http://asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Asian_Canadian_Writers%27_Workshop_(ACWW) Asian Canadian Writers Workshop], [http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Ricepaper_Magazine Ricepaper Magazine], Pender Guy Radio Program, Asia Canadian Performing Arts Resource (ACPAR), literASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing, and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Festival. He has also co-edited several anthologies of [http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Authors Asian Canadian writers]. | ||
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==Early Life== | ==Early Life== | ||
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* Canada Post Silver Postmark Award | * Canada Post Silver Postmark Award | ||
* Media Human Rights Award of the B'nai B'rith of Canada (1980) | * Media Human Rights Award of the B'nai B'rith of Canada (1980) | ||
==Partial List of Literary Works== | |||
* Inspection of a House Paid in Full (author) | |||
* Chinatown Ghosts (author) | |||
* A Brief History of Asian North America (author) | |||
* Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (co-author) | |||
* Inalienable Rice: A Chinese and Japanese Canadian Anthology (contributor) | |||
* Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writing by Chinese Canadians (co-editor) | |||
* Millennium Messages: An Anthology of Asian Canadian Writing (contributor) | |||
* Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry (co-editor) | |||
==List of Exhibitions and Photograph Publications== | |||
* The B.C. Photographer (publication), Mainstream (publication) | |||
* Asianadian (publication), Inalienable Rice: A Chinese and Japanese Anthology (book) | |||
* Yellow Peril: New World Asians (exhibit). | |||
{{#widget:YouTube|width=220|id=j-eOoj4hqvM|ACWW: Jim Wong-Chu at literASIAN launch}} | {{#widget:YouTube|width=220|id=j-eOoj4hqvM|ACWW: Jim Wong-Chu at literASIAN launch}} | ||