The crisis of COVID-19 has ushered in a new ‘normal’ for Canadians. The crisis of COVID-19 has once again made it scary to be Chinese in Canada, and North America more broadly.
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An iconic figure in Asian Canadian writing, Jim Wong-Chu was a poet, photographer, editor, and activist. Born in Hong Kong in 1949, Wong-Chu came to Canada as a four-year-old “paper son” of his aunt and uncle, who used falsified documents to bypass policies that restricted Chinese immigration.
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Read this story about fraught relationships with language by Governor General Award winner, David Yee. “My relationship to Cantonese is complicated, as is my relationship to Chinese-ness, as is my relationship to mixed-ness.”
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