The fairy tales and folklore of China -- like stories told throughout the ages everywhere -- bring the fantastic world of ghosts and demons into our everyday lives. So it is not surprising that food makes an appearance here -- each story is followed by a simple recipe by Judi Cha...
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"Facing a tyrannical emperor bent on war, three sisters in China, sublimely gifted in music, fend for themselves and their parents with the power and magic they create with their instruments. Can the beauty of their music change the emperor's heart and bring peace?"-- Provided by...
"Left behind in China by her father, Choon-Yi makes her living selling her paintings in the market. After her father writes to ask her to join him in the new world, she discovers that he has since been killed building the railway.
Provides an overview of the challenges the people have faced over the years and expresses the hope that they hold for the future.
Jason, a recent immigrant from China, makes some bad decisions as he comes to terms with small-town racism while trying to fit in.
Despite a greedy father and lazy brothers who try to conceal her identity as the real cook in their restaurant, Maylin manages to receive the recognition she deserves when a governor from China comes to a New World Chinatown.
When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.
Chinese immigrant Ray Liu is struggling in high school, not only because of his trouble speaking English, but also because he can't quite connect with his peers there. When his father discovers that Ray is gay, he kicks him out of the house. Ray heads to downtown Toronto, but fin...
A collection of ten short stories by Paul Yee about Chinese immigrants struggling to make new lives for themselves in North America.
A collection of eight stories chronicling the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the New World presents stories of triumph, disappointment, success, struggle, loss, and adventure.
Vancouver, 1907. Bing-wing Chan is forced to help his father dig up skeletons of deceased Chinese so the can be sent home to China for permanent burial. Sinister things start to happen soon after Bing accompanies his father to the graveyard.
Wei Lim's father, Ba, is a singer in the Chinese opera. He usually plays the general and sings in a deep bass voice. In Chinese opera men sing both male and female roles. Wei's grandfather was also an opera singer and always played a princess or maiden. He has taught Wei to sings...
A friendship develops between Shu-Li, whose family moved to Canada from China two years ago, and her classmate Tamara, another newcomer to the neighbourhood, but an ugly rumour threatens their relationship.