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File consists of news articles grouped together by Wayson about Chinatown, and the Second World War. File includes a 50th anniversary special issue of Time Magazine discussing Pearl Harbour, published 2 December 1991, An October 1988 issue of Saturday Night with a feature written by Denise Chong, entitled "Secrets of Chinatown", a newsclipping from the 30 May 1986 edition of the Globe and Mail discussing a British magazine's challenge of plagiarism towards Maclean's magazine, a section from 4 February 1992 edition of The Toronto Star discussing the Year of the Monkey and providing information about other signs in the Chinese zodiac, and a photocopied newsclipping of a contribution to The Toronto Star by Rebecca Bragg, discussing the Chinese zodiac.

File consists of news clippings relating to a Young People's Theatre production of "Nancy's Road"; a 29 May 1992 Education column from The Globe and Mail discussing Humber College's English placement exam for new students; a copy of China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston, and a programme for a performance of Winston Kam's play "Bachelor-Man"

File consists of a book about the Japanese Canadian experience.

File consists of an issue of "Time" magazine which includes an article on Chinese triads.

File consists of a book about Japanese internment ("Japanese imprisonment" is the preferred term now)

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.

File consists of a single copy of the short story "Turtle" published in 1994

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 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.