Lily Cho

Lily Cho is Professor of English, and Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (International) at Western University. Her book, Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens was awarded the 2023 Book Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Multidisciplinary Category by the Association for Asian American Studies.


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Targets and Referents
By Lily Cho
Published in Canada Reads. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 193 (Summer 2007): 108-109.
  • The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work by Ray Chow
Nostalgic Tributes
By Lily Cho
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 135-136.
  • Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages Between Japan and the West by Susan Fisher (Editor)
Extending Asian America
By Lily Cho
Published in Canadian Literature 185 (Summer 2005): 156-158.
  • New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (Editor), Akemi Kikiumura-Yano (Editor) and James A. Hirabayashi (Editor)
  • Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: the Metamorphoses of Southern California by Marta Lopez-Garza and David R. Diaz
Beyond Ethnography
By Lily Cho
Published in Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 111-112.
  • Transcultural Reinventions: sian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles by Rocío G. Davis
Histories of Difference
By Lily Cho
Published in Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 87-88.
  • Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850 by Rajani Sudan
  • Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1842-82 by Najia Aarim-Heriot
Diasporic Trajectories
By Lily Cho
Published in Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 159-160.
  • Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nyan Shah
  • Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee
  • Consuming Hong Kong by Gordon Matthews and Tai-lok Lui
Charting Asian America
By Lily Cho
Published in Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 135-136.
  • Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourceboo by Miles Xian Liu (Editor)
  • Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women's Writing by Helena Grice
Engendering China
By Lily Cho
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 123-124.
  • Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities by Susan Brownell (Editor) and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Editor)
  • Tales of a Chinese Grandmother by Frances Carpenter

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