Although Dr. Laifong Laifong retired from academic life just a few years ago, her current work continues a career that has spanned decades that includes an in-depth look into interplay of …
Allan Cho
Allan Cho
Engaged in a number of initiatives in the local community, Allan serves on the board of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. He has written for the Georgia Straight, Diverse Magazine, and Ricepaper. His fiction has appeared in anthologies, The Strangers and Eating Stories. He is one of the founders of LiterASIAN Writers Festival,the first Asian Canadian literary festival and is co-editor of the anthology, AlliterAsian: Celebrating Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine.
Part One can be found, here. Henry Young started doing odd jobs and delivering newspapers as a young boy. He managed to save enough money to buy his first motorcycle at …
THE COMPANY MEN insisted they were correct. Dul Hak Kun, Senior Vice President Talent Systems Management Generation Group, Seoul Almost everything about the new business cards was familiar: the logo, …
“Who’s the kid?” the waiter asked, as a young child and an old fellow sat down together at the Pender Café in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Bill Young responded, “This is my …
Memories tease me like a child playing hide and seek in the shadowy corners of my mind. When I look in the mirror, the lines on my face tell me …
June 15, 2006. A friend had sent the Kangs an email from Nantong, China: “If you watch your lives and care about things that happen around you, you will find …
the city on saturday mornings is not fully awake yet not fully recovered from last night’s dancing reckless and loving lonely strangers and taking midnight walks up to casa loma. …
I got a sunburn today, screaming red across the bridge of my nose like molten flesh. I’m glad. You see Mama, I’m not scared of becoming too “dark,” or curdling …
As a journalist who was born and raised in Hong Kong, Lena Sin’s first love was always art and she spent much of her time illustrating in watercolour, often while …
It’s strange watching this woman, my grandmother of the hunched back, chinaware bones and narrowing shoulders, this renegade who can count one more generation she has married off for every …