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#163 (Winter 1999)
Asian Canadian Writing

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Editorial

Glenn Deer

• Asian North America in Transit (p. 5 - 15)
• Subjects: Asian American, Asian Canadian, Immigrant, Multiculturalism
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Articles

Christopher Lee

• Engaging Chineseness in Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony (p. 18 - 33)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Novel
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Wayson Choy and Glenn Deer

• An Interview with Wayson Choy (p. 34 - 44)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Authorship
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Susanna Egan and Gabriele Helms

• The Many Tongues of Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka (p. 47 - 77)
• Subjects: Life Writing, Oral , Short Fiction
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Terry Watada

• To Go for Broke: The Spirit of the 70s (p. 80 - 91)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Culture, Multiculturalism, War
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Susan Fisher

• Japanese Elements in the Poetry of Fred Wah and Roy Kiyooka (p. 93 - 110)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Asian Culture, Poetry

John Ming Chen and Sally Ito

• An Interview with Sally Ito (p. 114 - 120)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Authorship, Short Fiction
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Mark Libin

• Lost in Translation: Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms (p. 121 - 140)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Novel
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Larissa Lai

• Political Animals and the Body of History (p. 145 - 154)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Multiculturalism
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Maria Noëlle Ng

• Representing Chinatown: Dr. Fu-Manchu at the Disappearing Moon Cafe (p. 157 - 175)
• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Cultural Studies, Ethnic History, Multiculturalism
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Poems

Rita Wong

• open the brutal (p. 16)

Roy Miki

• Winnipeg c. 1950 (p. 17)

Andy Quan

• flight ice blood metal (p. 45 - 46)

Roy Miki

• on the sublime (p. 78 - 79)

Leslie Lum

• The Purpose of Rooms (p. 92)

Fred Wah

• Ethnogy Journal, Thailand 1999 (p. 111 - 113)

Terry Watada

• The Emerald Sutra: an excerpt (p. 141 - 144)

Randal Chin

• Nothing is Perfect the First Time (p. 155)

Jean Eng

• Taxi-Driven (p. 156)

Jen Lam

• my 1st born will be named Nina (p. 176 - 177)

Fiona Lam

• Lament of the Bowl (p. 178)

Book Reviews

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In-Between Souls (p. 179 - 180)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood by Wayson Choy

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Autobiography

Unrelenting Genealogies (p. 181 - 183)

by Marilyn Iwama

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lake and Other Stories by Gerry Shikatani
2. Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
3. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan by Takashi Fujitani

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Asian Culture, Short Fiction

Sunflowers and Apples (p. 183 - 184)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Me and Mr. Mah by Andrea Spalding and Janet Wilson
2. The Stoneboat by Teddy Jam and Ange Zhang

Subjects: Children's Literature

A Mediated/Meditatory/Mediating Life (p. 184 - 185)

by Sneja Gunew

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka and Daphne Marlatt
2. Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka and Roy Miki

Subjects: Life Writing, Poetry

Between Borders (p. 186 - 187)

by Vijay Devadas

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia by K. S. Maniam
2. The Excluded Wife by Yuen-Fong Woon

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Indian/South Asian

Vancouver's Early Life (p. 187 - 189)

by Lindsey McMaster

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 by Robert A. J. McDonald

Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, History

The Rising Daughter (p. 189 - 191)

by Susan Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo by Norma Field
2. The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives by Patricia Morley

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Biography, Life Writing

Unsettled, unsettling (p. 191 - 193)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto

Subjects: Novel

Traveler's Tales (p. 193 - 195)

by Marilyn Iwama

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Picture Brides: Japanese Women in Canada by Kathleen Chisato Merken and Tomoko Makabe
2. The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Asian Culture, Women's Studies

Varied Stories (p. 195 - 197)

by Rita Wong

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices by Ronald Takaki
2. Choose Me by Evelyn Lau

Subjects: Asian American, Multiculturalism, Native Studies, Politics, Short Fiction, United States, Working Class

The Dragon and the Emporium (p. 197 - 200)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers by Esther Mikyung Ghymn
2. Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
3. Transporting the Emporium: Hong Kong Art & Writing Through the Ends of Time by Scott McFarlane

Subjects: Art, Asian Canadian, Asian Culture, Novel, Women's Literature

Chinese Speak (p. 200 - 204)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ye Ting-xing
2. China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry by Judy Fong Bates
3. Hong Kong Poems by Andrew Parkin and Laurence Wong
4. Ingratitude by Carol Volk and Ying Chen

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Autobiography, Native Studies, Novel, Poetry

Non-Generic Brands (p. 204 - 206)

by Mark Libin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Monkeypuzzle by Rita Wong
2. The Boy in the Attic by Paul Yee and Gu Xiong
3. The Girl from Ermita & Selected Poems: 1961-1998 by Goh Poh Seng

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Children's Literature, Poetry

Women Writing Women (p. 206 - 208)

by Susanna Egan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada & The United States by Jill Ker Conway

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Australasian, Autobiography, Body & Health, Life Writing, Memory & Identity, United States, Women's Literature

Anthologizing Asia (p. 208 - 211)

by Scott McFarlane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canadian Culture and Literature and a Taiwan Perspective by Yiu-nam Leung and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
2. Pacific Encounters: The Production of Self and Other by Allan Smith, Joshua S. Mostow, Robert Kramer, and Eva-Marie Kröller

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Canadian Studies, Comparative, Memory & Identity

Opinions & Notes

W. H. New

• Contradicting 1998 (p. 212 - 220)
• Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism, Novel