{"id":307,"date":"2012-06-14T20:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/hien-the-chu\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:38:10","slug":"chu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/chu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hien The Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"bottomborder\">\n<div class=\"narrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<p>Hien The Chu was born in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City). He escaped from Vietnam on a fishing boat in 1988 and eventually found sanctuary in the Philippines. Chu emigrated to Canada in 1990, spent a year working as a translator at a camp for displaced people in the Philippines, then returned to Canada in 1992. Chu is a graduate of the University of Toronto where he earned a B.A. At the time of publication of his first collection of short stories, he was living in Mississauga, Ont. and working on a Graduate degree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"bottomborder\">\n<div class=\"narrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<h3>Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n<h3>Express Funeral and Other Stories<\/h3>\n<p>Toronto: Life Rattle Press, 1996.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&#038;docid=alma991004726909708636\">PS8555 .H77 E96 1996<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight short stories that record living conditions following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, accounts of efforts to escape as &#8220;boat people&#8221; and conditions in refugee camps for those lucky enough to make it to the Philippines or other safe countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"narrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/liferattle.ca\/publishing\/\">Life Rattle Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hien The Chu was born in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City). He escaped from Vietnam on a fishing boat in 1988 and eventually found sanctuary in the Philippines. Chu emigrated to Canada in 1990, spent a year working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/chu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18740,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions\/18740"}],"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=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}