Beyond Silence
Chinese-Canadian Literature in English
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920661697
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
From unappreciated railway workers facing institutional racism and neglect in the last century to national cultural figures of the present, the Chinese, like other coloured peoples of Canada, have made great inroads into the mainstream, which in turn has adjusted its self-image to accommodate diversity.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Lien Chao is the author of Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English (1997), winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her other publications include Tiger Girl: Hu Nü (2001), a creative memoir about growing up in Mao's China; Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction (2003), edited with Jim Wong-Chu; The Chinese Knot and Other Stories (2008); and three collections of bilingual poetry, Maples and the Stream (1999), More Than Skin Deep (2004), and Salt in My Life (2019). She has also published several bilingual books on Chinese Brush Painting. She is an inter-arts artist.
Editorial Reviews
"...an important milestone in the evolution of Canadian literary studies" --Arun Mukherjee, York University