"Wayson Choy : Unfolding the Butterfly" : [video recording]
- HC01 WC-WC1-WC1B-WC1B.010
- File
- 2000
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a VHS documentary directed by Michael Glassbourg on Wayson Choy.
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"Wayson Choy : Unfolding the Butterfly" : [video recording]
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a VHS documentary directed by Michael Glassbourg on Wayson Choy.
Fonds consists of the personal correspondence, records, research material and writing of Wayson Choy. Fonds includes photographs, letters, floppy discs, personal genealogical research, private records, and research material organized into subseries focusing on China and Chinese culture, Chinatowns in British Columbia and internationally, Chinese Canadian immigration and history, and Chinese Canadian individuals.
Choy, Wayson (1939-2019)
Wayson Choy professional correspondence
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of letters and drafts of letters written by Wayson Choy. Includes a letter to Patsy Aldana at Douglas & McIntyre regarding an offer for a sequel to "The Jade Peony" and a letter to Iona Wishaw and her class at Vancouver Technical Secondary School.
Wayson Choy professional correspondence, part II and "The Ten Thousand Things"
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of excerpts from a novel in progress. Some character names appear in "The Jade Peony". File also includes a letter written by Wayson to his literary agent, Denise Bukowski regarding an offer received from Douglas & McIntyre.
Wayson Choy Short stories, drafts, sources and notations
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File includes drafts of several short stories, notes and lists of sources and notations. Some of the short stories may have been adapted for inclusion in "The Jade Peony". Short stories include: "Bones", "Chop Stew", "Crazy Words", "Dancing Warriors", "Soldiers All", "Forever", "The Ghost Table", "Gold Rush", "Neighbours", "Library Blues", "Luck", "I=Me", "Mo No" (this is a new version of "Judges' Choice" which was submitted for a 1992 short story contest),"Cookies", "Old Lem", "Sacrifice" (other versions of this story are titled, "Them"), "Secrets", "The Singer, Not the Song", "Sister! Sister!" "Monkey Man", "Washing" and "The Girl Who Bled to Death". File also includes excerpts from "Dubliners" by James Joyce and "Translations", a poem by Wing Tek Lum.
"Why Japan has Rewritten its History" : [news article]
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a news article from "The Star", discussing revisions made to scholarly materials which discuss Japanese history.
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of research materials relating to the Yip Family of Vancouver. The file includes a newspaper feature written about Charlie Hoy, correspondence between Robert Yip and Wayson, other news articles, duplicated photographs of the Ladies Auxillary from Victoria Yip's personal collection, and transcripts of an oral history interviews with Chik Wai (Victor) Leung conducted in 1985. File also includes a biography of his wife, Susanne Ling Yipsang by Eleanor S.P. Leung, an autobiography written by Chik Wai Leung, at age 81, in 1978, and original correspondence between Art and Quene Yip from 1929. Art writes "Chinatown is dead now". The Yips feature in several of Wayson's novels and memoirs.
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a privately printed book on Yip Sang. The file is inscribed to Wayson by Victoria and Robert Yip in 1996.