Allan Cho: Difference between revisions

Allan is a professional librarian working full-time at the University of British Columbia at the Walter C. Koerner Library. He has served on the Board of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. In addition to being the Executive Director of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, he is a published writer and nurtures youth writers through the national Ricepaper Magazine which recently has morphed into a dynamic digital publication. Allan spearheads the annual LiterASIAN festival, which is the only Asian Canadian Writers’ Festival in N. America. He brings valuable assets and important research skills, tools and is quick in identifying sources of materials including digital resources in the academic and public domains.  He consults on a project called the Early Hong Kong-Canada Connections: An Exhibition-Oriented research Project to Uncover Historical Facts and Artefacts on Chinese Migration to the "New Gold Mountain" of Canada.