THE TIES BETWEEN A HOUSE BOY AND HIS EMPLOYER
This piece by Lu Wong, who reports from Vancouver for Sing Tao, appeared in Sing Tao Daily on September 18th, 2010. You can also download it as a PDF (3.2 Mb). This translation is by Shan (Joanna) Qiao. A tale of a man much like the one depicted in Hong Kong’s award-winning movie...
IN SEARCH OF A HEAD TAX PAYER’S PAST
This article, by a staff writer, was originally published in Sing Tao September 18, 2010, and later reprinted in Kang He magazine. You can also download the article as a PDF (6.1Mb). The translation below is by Shan (Joanna) Qiao.Canadian writer of Irish descent Susan Crean is searching for the past of a...
MR. WONG’S STORY: A TALE OF SACRIFICE AND GENEROSITY
This article was originally published in The Toronto Star on January 26, 2011 as part of a special supplement celebrating the Chinese New Year. It’s the story of Wong Dong Wong who came to Canada as a teenager in 1911 to work in his uncle’s restaurant in Vancouver. He was an orphan...
LOOKING FOR WONG DONG WONG
This piece was published in Tai Shan magazine in November, 2010, a scan of which you can download as a PDF (2.3Mb). I am a Canadian writer of Scottish and Irish descent. Two years ago I began work on a book which will include the story of a Chinese Canadian, Wong Dong Wong,...
VISITING THE WONGS’ ASSOCIATION
This article was originally published in the Wongs' Association Convention magazine in 2011. You can also download the article as a PDF (2.3Mb). Climbing the narrow staircase to the Wongs’ Association’s third floor office in downtown Toronto, past the plaque reading Wong Kung Har Wun Sun Association in Chinese and English, you reach...
MEETING HOWE CHAN
Shortly after I arrived at Kogawa House, artist Laura Bucci came for an evening session of button making. She arrived with several plastic packing boxes filled with an array of coloured and patterned paper, old magazines, scissors, glue, and a collection of rubber stamps with words like “escape” and “passion” on them. The event...