More Than Skin Deep
Poetry in English and Chinese
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2004
- Category
- Canadian
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781894770200
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $21.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894770187
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
In these poems, created in both English and Chinese, Lien Chao evokes the lives of Asian Canadians in all their diversity and depth, as she reflects on the issues of identity, assimilation, and language.
These issues occur in the very act of confronting the two very different languages - Chinese and English - with each other, so that the confrontation itself becomes a metaphor of adaptation and conflict of cultures in Canada.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Lien Chao came to Canada from China in 1984. She is the author of Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism; Maples and the Stream a bilingual poetry collection, and Tiger Girl (Hu Nu), a creative memoir.
