Authors
Academic and Education Arts Literature Group
Authors Project
An invitation of Chinese Canadian writers to China has resulted in interests in Canada and in China to share and access Chinese Canadian authors. This project responds to interests from professors,teachers, writers, cultural workers, institutions, academic departments in Canada and China. The intent is to provide a resource of authors and selected titles for educators, institutions, and academic departments in Canada, China and for all those interested.
A spreadsheet will be available on line soon for accessing and organizing a more complete list of authors. Please contribute to this resource of Asian and Chinese Canadian authors and titles. This first Chinese Canadian author list is in response to the China project. An Asian Canadian authors and subjects list will follow soon. If you are an Asian Canadian author, you are most welcome to also create your own profile page. Please respect the format as set out on this list and also include the genre, for ex. F(fiction), NF(non-fiction), J(juvenile), P(poetry).
Authors (Chinese Origin)
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)