{"id":19194,"date":"2024-10-03T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19194"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:09:20","slug":"christopher-tse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/christopher-tse\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Tse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Christopher Tse is an educator, writer, and award-winning artist based in Whitehorse, Yukon. Originally from Vancouver, he is a respected spoken work poet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Song for the Paper Children<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

[Oakville, ON]: Plumleaf Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A Song for the Paper Children <\/strong><\/em>is a tribute to early Chinese immigrants, some of whom came to Canada after the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to severely restrict their entry. These \u201cpaper children,\u201d courageous men and women, endured legislated racism, financial hardship, and frequent acts of violence and discrimination, but they followed in the footsteps of their predecessors to lay the foundation for a Chinese Canadian community today that is vibrant, resilient and here to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poem was written to commemorate the centenary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and was performed by poet Christopher Tse in the Senate of Canada on 23 June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Plumleaf Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Tse is an educator, writer, and award-winning artist based in Whitehorse, Yukon. Originally from Vancouver, he is a respected spoken work poet. Poetry A Song for the Paper Children [Oakville, ON]: Plumleaf Press, 2024. Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20489,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19194\/revisions\/20489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}