Stories

Embracing Identity: A Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Love

The flourishing of diversity is an essential facet in the profound beauty that our world rightfully deserves. By Revin Chen   Kimberly Yam, the Asian Voices editor at HuffPost, recently shared a post...

Historical Background of Anti-Chinese Discrimination in British Columbia

Men from southern China came along with the earliest non-indigenous migrants to what later became British Columbia, for instance as carpenters and ship’s crew on-board former British naval officer...

Discrimination and Inequity to Chinese Language Group at Langara College

by Tianming Li and other 2 Chinese instructors   I am writing to draw your attention to a case of discrimination and inequity in the Chinese language instruction group at Langara College. I am...

Okanagan Racist Attacked Chinese Canadian Woman with Heavy Chest Punch

By Yuqi Feng   On November 5, 51-year-old Huiping Hu was attacked by a racist in Okanagan, resulting in both physical injuries and deep psychological trauma. Accompanied by a UBC Okanagan student, Hu...

Anti-East Asian hate remains a problem in Toronto. A new city campaign aims to shut it down

Story by Muriel Draaisma   When Toronto city councillor Lily Cheng was in Grade 5, she says she was harassed by three boys on her way home from school. The boys ran out and called her “all the...

Karen Cho on the Fight to Keep Chinatowns Big and Small

An interview with the director of Big Fight in Little Chinatown.  By Rachel Ho     For documentarian Karen Cho signs that one often associates with death ironically point to a living...

The Complexity in ‘Where Are You From?’

I lived at the same address throughout my American childhood, but neither of my Chinese-born parents could say exactly where they were from.  By Vanessa Hua 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版     When I asked my father...

Unlocking family secrets

Siblings’ quest to find out more about their Chinese parents’ complicated pasts.  by Florence Hwang In 2006, 81-year-old Nellie Wong placed a framed cheque stub for $20,000 on her end table. At the...

Vancouver’s fight to save its struggling Chinatown one of many playing out across Canada

In the face of gentrification, and economic pressures, residents and advocates are trying to revitalize neighbourhoods.  by Yvette Brend     William Liu grew up near his family’s frozen dim sum...