Excerpts from Reimagining ChinaTOwn: Speculative Fiction Stories from Toronto’s Chinatown(s) in 2050. (Preface by Linda Zhang) What would it look like for Chinatown to thrive instead of just survive? Who …
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He was walking briskly along the travelator, pulling his suitcase behind him, when the thought appeared in his mind—what if it were possible to determine the exact date of our …
This is how it may start to end, round of applause for the chief exec to exit, quaintly hugging in a photo op her family, handshake, flowers. There is no …
Don’t call them dogs. Protest is merely a sound for ears that must stay deaf for those who feed above. They are more bothersome, just as you are bothersome as …
Tin Yuet, Sky Joy, also a public estate building’s name: meals by good friends’ parents always make you doubt if yours have been serving you the right recipes. We ate …
The graduation ceremony had to end early, the chancellor left with guards. Students held signs in black gowns, saying, “You can’t kill us all.” How do we live up to …
Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Jessalyn Wanlim, of Filipino and Chinese-Indonesian descent, pursued dance at the National Ballet School of Canada and furthered her artistic endeavors at The Juilliard School in New …
Wayne Ng was born in downtown Toronto to Chinese immigrants who fed him a steady diet of bitter melons and kung fu movies. Ng works as a school social worker …
Or so the collective chant goes, but no, ideas are not bulletproof, they can be usefully forgotten. What did you do a month ago? Truth is, I want you to …
Don’t betray me, his brow suggests behind a covering. I offer him a beer as reconciliation, which he refuses in the presence of cops. It’s not illegal to drink publicly …