{"id":5346,"date":"2014-03-13T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=5346"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:28:47","slug":"jim-wong-chu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jim-wong-chu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wong-Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Wong-Chu is remembered as an anthologist, poet, writer and community activist who mentored many. He was born in Hong Kong and came to Canada as a child in 1953 and was raised in British Columbia by aunts and uncles.\u00a0 He is the founder of the Vancouver-based Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and its Ricepaper Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0 With collaborators, Wong-Chu edited four anthologies of Chinese-Canadian literary works:\u00a0 Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writing by Chinese Canadians <\/em><\/a>(1991), Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry <\/em><\/a>(1999), and, Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian<\/em> Fiction <\/em><\/a>(2003) and AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine<\/a><\/em> (2015). Jim Wong-Chu died on July 11, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry<\/h3>\n

Chinatown Ghosts<\/h3>\n

Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

In this collection of poems–one of the first of its kind every to be published–Jim Wong-Chu emerges from the landscape of Chinese-Canadian caf\u00e9 society to address the struggles and contradictions of a community seeking to honour the past while trying to break free of it.\u00a0 Exhilarating and terrifying, these poems are eloquent testimony to the forbearance of a culture, and, ultimately, its survival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry<\/h3>\n

Chinatown Ghosts: The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu<\/h3>\n

Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

When it first appeared in 1986,\u00a0Chinatown Ghosts<\/i>\u00a0was the first Chinese Canadian poetry book ever published; the poems spoke eloquently to the Chinese Canadian experience, both historical and present day. Out of print for some twenty-five years, this new edition includes Jim’s striking and evocative photographs of Vancouver’s Chinatown, revealing the soul of a place and a community that is threatened by gentrification and displacement.<\/p>\n

The book also contains numerous tributes to Jim from some of Canada\u2019s finest Asian-Canadian writers and editors, including Allan Cho, Glenn Deer, Catherine Hernandez, SKY Lee, Fred Wah, Terry Watada, Rita Wong, and Paul Yee.<\/p>\n

Chinatown Ghosts<\/i>\u00a0is a moving and stirring tribute to a poet, a photographer, and a community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology (Interview)<\/h3>\n

Wong-Chu, Jim, interview by Jurgen Hesse. In Voices of Change: Immigrant Writers Speak Out<\/span><\/em>, edited by Jurgen Hesse. Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1990, 184-201.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press<\/a> (successor to Pulp Press)<\/p>\n

Publisher Mawenzi House<\/a>, formerly TSAR<\/p>\n

Interview<\/a> with Jenny Uechi in Ricepaper<\/em> 15:4<\/p>\n

Jim Wong-Chu obituary<\/a> that appeared in the Vancouver Sun<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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