- HC01 WC-WC2-WC2A-WC2A.001
- File
- 1 February 1993
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of an issue of "Time" magazine which includes an article on Chinese triads.
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Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of an issue of "Time" magazine which includes an article on Chinese triads.
"Prisoners Without Trial" by Roger Daniels : [book]
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a book about Japanese internment ("Japanese imprisonment" is the preferred term now)
"Dragons of Crime: Asian Mobs in Canada" : [book]
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a book by James Dubro.
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a news clipping discussing a historical site at 346 Spadina Avenue, copies of the Chinatown History Museum newsletter, and photocopied sections from Working People, a book by Desmond Martin with Terry Copp, about Chinatowns in Canada and the US.
Study guide for "Naomi's Road"
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a study guide for the Young People's Theatre adaptation of Joy Kogawa's "Naomi's Road". Joy Kogawa was a Japanese Canadian author. Her work was developed into the play by Paula Wing. Production was created with the support of the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation.
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
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".
"Bittersweet Passage" by Maryka Omatsu : [book]
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a book about the Japanese Canadian experience.
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a photograph of Wayson Choy taken by Humber College photographer Gary Gellery. On the verso is written "Ever young Wayson".
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a map of China, originally a supplement to an issue of the National Geographic Magazine. Includes a timeline of the history of China and brief write-ups concerning agriculture, industry, and the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties.
"The Forbidden City within Victoria" : [booklet]
Part of Wayson Choy fonds
File consists of a copy of a book by David Chuenyan Lai. The book focuses on Victoria's Chinatown and discusses its growth,the ownership of properties, tunnel systems within the community, the symbolism of objects and architecture, heritage buildings, myths, hospitals, the public school and cemetery. The file also includes a newsclipping about an archeological project in Vancouver's Chinatown, the first of its kind in urban Vancouver. Article includes a racist comment from an observer of the archaeological dig and a researcher emphasizes that this is the reason the project is being undertaken, to find the true history of Chinatown, and to refute racist historical perspectives.