Asian Canadian, Asian Australian. We often think of identifiers like these in largely national terms. But many similar cultural and historical experiences bind us that have given rise to a …
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Alissa Cho doesn’t write “From: Aunt Alissa and Uncle Stevie” on the Christmas presents anymore. She and Stevie fight too much now and she worries if she writes their names …
You were the Sawdust Boy. That’s what everybody called you back when there were no electric stoves in the village. Elderly women making bets with their husbands’ cigarette money on …
“The Soul of the Tiger” (L’âme du tigre) at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) 2017
by Gavin Hee
The Chinese diaspora population is estimated at 50 million. That is not just one Australia. It is two. Spread across 110 countries, one of those nations is Switzerland. This brings …
A Korean-born man (John Cho) finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman (Haley Lu Richardson) who wants …
It is November soon and that means it is time for one of Vancouver’s most anticipated events: the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, otherwise known as VAFF. Nowhere else can Asians …
In the end, the chair has lost its owner. The chair grinds out bad cells, the wind on the chair is caught in the throat as it takes …
Komla Begum strode with great purpose down the aisles of the grocery store. Every footfall was audible and every step was a huff. She was angry that her daughter had …
My father is resting alone beneath the sacred lights, while I cradle in dismay, surrounded by Elders coercing me to compose and read him a eulogy at the altar. His …
Summer drapes itself across clear blue skies and warm, lazy weekends. Even on the occasional rainy day, it sings behind the cloud cover. You hold on to a fading dream …
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