{"id":305,"date":"2012-06-14T20:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/denise-chong\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:35:14","slug":"chong_denise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/chong_denise\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Chong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denise Chong was born in Vancouver and grew up in Prince George, B.C. She earned a BA in economics from the University of British Columbia in 1975 and an MA in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Toronto in 1978. She worked in the federal public service for a few years before focusing upon careers as a professional writer, first as a business journalist and later as a biographer. Chong now lives in Ottawa. Denise Chong is an Officer of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Non-Fiction Prose (Biography)<\/h3>\n

The Concubine’s Children: Portrait of a Family<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Viking\/Penguin Books Canada, 1994.
\nToronto: Penguin, 1995.
\nFC3850 .C5 C5 1995 <\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

1994 Governor General’s Literary Award<\/a>–English–Non-fiction (Finalist)
\n1994 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (Winner)
\n1995 City of Vancouver Book Award<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Non-Fiction Prose (Biography)<\/h3>\n

Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2009.
\nDS779.32 .C86 2009 <\/a>
\nreissued in 2011 by Vintage Canada with new title: Egg on Mao: A Story of Love, Hope and Defiance.<\/p>\n

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

Despite his family\u2019s impeccable Communist roots, Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, grew up intuiting all that was wrong with Mao\u2019s China. As a young man he believes truth and decency mattered, only to learn that preserving the Chairman\u2019s legacy mattered more.
\nLu\u2019s story reads like Shakespearean drama, peppered with defiance, love and betrayal. His steadfast refusal to acquiesce comes to a head, but not an end, with his infamous defacing of Mao\u2019s portrait during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Non-Fiction Prose (Biography)<\/h3>\n

The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, The Photograph, and the Vietnam War<\/h3>\n

Toronto: , 2000.
\nToronto: Penguin Canada, 2006.
\nDS559.8 .C53 C48 2006 <\/a><\/p>\n

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

On June 8, 1972, a nine-year-old girl, severely burned by napalm, ran from a misplaced air strike over her village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph\u2014one of the most unforgettable images of the war and of the twentieth century\u2014was seen around the world. The Girl in the Picture<\/span> is at once a riveting personal story about Kim Phuc, a victim of war and later, under the Communist regime, a tool of propaganda, and a groundbreaking social history that offers a rare view of everyday life in Vietnam both during and after the war.<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

2000 Governor General’s Literary Award–English–Non-fiction (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Non-Fiction Prose (Biography)<\/h3>\n

Lives of the Family: Stories of Fate and Circumstance<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2013.
\nFC3096.9 .C5 C46 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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Anthology (Non-fiction)<\/h3>\n

Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules<\/h3>\n

PS8373.1 .FR56 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chong, Denise. “Across the Divide and Back.” In Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules<\/em>, edited by Jared Bland. Toronto: Emblem, 2011, 252-262.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology<\/h3>\n

Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections<\/h3>\n

Z1039 .A87 R43 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Chong, Denise. “Imagining the Truth.” In Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections<\/em>. Danielle Schaub, photographer and ed. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006, 184-185.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Byrne, Elizabeth. \u201cNeither this nor that: The hyphenated existence of Chinese children growing up in twentieth century North America.\u201d M.A. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2005. Accessed August 30, 2013.
\nAvailable as an open access thesis from http:\/\/summit.sfu.ca\/item\/10181<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chao, Lien. \u201cThe Collective Self: A Narrative Paradigm and Self-expression in Three Prose Works.\u201d Chap. in her Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English<\/em>. Toronto: TSAR, 1997, 88-121.
\nPS8089.5 .C47 C52 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gunderson, Michele Mary.\u00a0 “Finding a Place in Nation: Autobiography and Embodiment.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 2003.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lim, Huai-Yang. “Representations of Class Identity in Chinese Canadian Literature.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 2005.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Miki, Roy. “Can Asian Adian?: Reading Some Signs of Asian Canadians.” Chap. in his In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing<\/span><\/em>. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2011, 91-115.
\nPS8089.5 .A8 M55 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

Publisher Penguin Group Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher Random House Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

Denise Chong<\/a> entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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