Lenora Chu, a renowned Chinese-American journalist, is a daughter of Taiwanese immigrants who moved to America. In contrast, Chu decided to move to Shanghai to raise her three-year-old son using the highly-praised Chinese approach to education and schooling. During their … more »
Photo Courtesy of Amrita Singh
Eileen Li is an up and coming Asian-Canadian actress who currently lives in Toronto. While she initially attended the University of Waterloo for kinesiology, she finished school with a professional degree in dramatic arts and … more »
Image courtesy of Vancouver Queer Film Festival
“Someone once compared my skin colour to a nicotine stain. They weren’t interested in a date. They told me to go back to China,” so opens Project Gelb, a documentary by Francis … more »
Marcelino Truong
Marcelino Truong’s new book Such a Lovely Little War illustrates his childhood and family life during the early years of the Vietnam War. His father (a Vietnamese diplomat) and his French mother moved the family to Saigon in … more »
Kai Cheng Thom, photo by Jackson Ezra
Kai Cheng Thom is a poetic force of nature. The twenty six year old Chinese diaspora kid comes from three generations of settlers of colour from traditional Salish and Musqueam (Vancouver) to Kanienkehake … more »
a place called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
a place called No Homeland
By Kai Cheng Thom
Arsenal Pulp Press (2017)
83 pages, $14.95 (Paperback)
REVIEWED BY DAVID LY
Kai Cheng Thom’s a place called No Homeland is … more »
Written by Hiromi Goto (from Ricepaper issue 19-4, Winter 2014)
Story is what has brought me here today. Story is what has brought you here. We are alike and very unalike in many, many ways. Our bodies, our genders, our … more »
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