{"id":12488,"date":"2020-08-23T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12488"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:26:24","slug":"michael-david-kwan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/michael-david-kwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael David Kwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michael David Kwan was born in Beijing in 1934 to a young Swiss mother and a wealthy Chinese father. Kwan recounts his formative years in his award winning memoir Things That Must Not be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China<\/a><\/em>. Kwan settled in Vancouver in 1963 and worked largely in the travel industy. In 1988 he was invited to Beijing to teach tourism at a local university. Living on campus, he came in contact with students engaged in the pro-democracy movement that came to an end with the Tiananmen Square Massacre\/Incident of June 4, 1989. He captured something of this period in Broken Portraits: Personal Encounters with Chinese Students<\/em> (San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, 1990). Under the name David Kwan, he published translations of modern Chinese literature into English. Kwan also wrote two plays and a screenplay. He was at work on a book about Chin Sihuang Di, the first emperor of China when he died following a critically brief illness in 2001. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Folklore)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese Storyteller’s Book: Supernatural Tales<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine a universe constructed in layers. At the top is Heaven–where the gods live. Beneath is the Earth, where people dwell. And beneath the Earth lies a magical realm of witches, vampires, ghosts, and immortal foxes capable of assuming human form. This is the universe of Chinese folktale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nine tales in The Chinese Storyteller’s Book<\/em> show what happens when the worlds of Earth and the supernatural collide. …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael David Kwan first heard these tales told by street-corner storytellers during his childhood in China. He retells them through his own unique literary vision–through the lens of his own personality, experience, and imagination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Michael David Kwan Interviewed by Linda L. Richards<\/a> writing in January Magazine<\/em>, August 2020 updated with a memorial notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Tuttle Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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