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Literary Criticism General

Beyond Silence

Chinese-Canadian Literature in English

by (author) Lien Chao

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 1997
Category
General
  • 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