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|Image=Christina Wong.jpg | |Image=Christina Wong.jpg | ||
|Location=Vancouver | |||
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|Arts=Academic and Education, Academia/Research, Arts, Artists, Media, Journalism, Media Arts | |||
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Christina Wong is a television documentary producer, broadcast journalist, and CBC radio producer | Christina Wong is a television documentary producer, broadcast journalist, and CBC radio producer. | ||
She recently worked as a Story Consultant in Their Voices Are Still Alive- Jewish Life in Themar, 2013. | She recently worked as a Story Consultant in Their Voices Are Still Alive- Jewish Life in Themar, 2013. | ||
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In her CBC radio documentary, '''Shanghai Ladies''', aired on Monday, November 29, 2010, painted posters of beautiful women were used to sell all manner of goods in 1920s China. Broadcaster Christina Wong asks if these are images of subservience or liberation. | In her CBC radio documentary, '''Shanghai Ladies''', aired on Monday, November 29, 2010, painted posters of beautiful women were used to sell all manner of goods in 1920s China. Broadcaster Christina Wong asks if these are images of subservience or liberation. | ||
'''Summary''' | '''Summary''' | ||
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'''Documentaries''' | '''Documentaries''' | ||
Her Unsung Heroes was shown at the Second Vancouver Asian Film Festival and the Fourth Annual Sea to Sky Film Festival, 1999 | Her Unsung Heroes was shown at the Second Vancouver Asian Film Festival and the Fourth Annual Sea to Sky Film Festival, 1999. | ||
[http://www.reviewvancouver.org/sp_asianfestival98.htm] | [http://www.reviewvancouver.org/sp_asianfestival98.htm] | ||
[http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/s-to-s-film-fest/Content?oid=2174309] | [http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/s-to-s-film-fest/Content?oid=2174309] | ||
'''Unsung Heroes: Chinese Canadians''' in WW II is a 27 min film documentary produced in 1997. It was funded in part by grant from Government of Canada Year of the Asia Pacific Program. This documentary has been used by the Knowledge Network as part of a fund raising campaign for this Public Television service in B.C. This documentary film contains the last public interview given to a media production by Roy Chan, who at the time was the last surviving member of the Borneo operation. He was part of the 13 Chinese Canadian military regiment engaged in '''Operation Oblivion''' during WW II. | |||
[https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/hr_cdnchinese/profile/bongj] | |||
See a recent production. | |||
[http://mediamonkey.ca/operation-oblivion/] | |||
Christina has also produced and directed Chinatown Blues (1997) Rogers Community Television. This documentary profiled renowned Chinese Canadian jazz guitarist Henry Young. | Christina has also produced and directed Chinatown Blues (1997) Rogers Community Television. This documentary profiled renowned Chinese Canadian jazz guitarist Henry Young. | ||
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-TW6n0Bog0] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-TW6n0Bog0] | ||
As a reporter for Global Television she worked on a three-part series on Hong Kong immigrants settling in Vancouver, B.C. This was Passport to B.C. (1994). | As a reporter for Global Television, she worked on a three-part series on Hong Kong immigrants settling in Vancouver, B.C. This was Passport to B.C. (1994). | ||