File consists of an essay written by Wong for a literary contest. The file includes a cover letter from Larry to Wayson discussing the essay being submitted to the CBC/Saturday Night Literary contest. Empress of Asia was a Canadian Pacific Steamship which travelled between China and Canada, before being requisitioned by the British Army for World War II. It sunk on 5 February 1942. The essay discusses Wong's family immigrating to Canada on Empress of Asia, settling in Chinatown, and a trip to Hong Kong in later life to visit his mother's grave, to discover it disturbed by a new property development.
File consists of several drafts of an essay submitted by Wayson Choy, for inclusion in "A Celebration of Great Writers" campaign run by Chapters. Essay is titled "Asian Writers" and "Asian Fiction" in different drafts.
File consists of a eulogy co-written by Wayson. File also includes a receipt from Print Express, for fax services, dated September 14, 1992. The top of the eulogy includes James Johnston as the addressee. The eulogy is signed off, "Paul Cheung, Wayson Choy, Richard Fung, Allan Li, Lloyd Wong ... and other friends from Gay Asians of Toronto".
File consists of family photographs (including of Wayson as a child, Wayson's grandparents and others, and a photograph of a contemporary house in Vancouver), bank documents (including a Chinese Liberty Loan certificate), and a Chinese language school textbook for a first-year student which discusses how to behave in school. File also includes a coupon.
File consists of genealogical research conducted by Wayson. Includes birth and death records (including Wayson's birth certificate), travel tickets, a receipt, copies of archival research material (including a register of Chinese immigrants to Canada), and photographs of Wayson's family members and gravesites.
Subseries consists of birth and death records, including Wayson Choy's birth certificate. It also includes travel tickets, receipts, a register of Chinese immigrants to Canada, personal photographs of family members, and an elementary school textbook for children from the 1930s.
File consists of an article contributed to the Globe and Mail's Travel section by Cindy Low about the New Territories, or "the land between", the area between Hong Kong's core and the Chinese border 25 km to the north of Hong Kong. The article includes a handwritten note by Wayson.
File consists of a booklet from New York's Chinatown History Museum's hosting of the film "Golden Gate". It includes archival photographs from the museum, and discusses life in Chinatown in the 1950s, including a list of secondary sources to research for additional information.
