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• Publisher : D & M Publishers
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2009

Three siblings tell the stories of their very different childhoods in Vancouver's Chinatown before and during World War II.

• Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 May 1995

Told through the vivid, intense reminiscences of three children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love

• Publisher : Other Press (NY)
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 May 2024

"Beautifully written….It renders a complex and complete human world, which by the end we have learned to love."—The Boston Book Review Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and

• Publisher : Anchor Canada
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 September 2011

Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at

• Publisher : Penguin Books
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 05 May 2024

In 1995, during the publicity tour for his much-acclaimed first novel, "The Jade Peony," Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to have just seen his mother

• Publisher : Doubleday Canada
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 29 May 2009

Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living. In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined

• Publisher : Another World Press
• File Size : 50,9 Mb
• Release Date : 08 April 2022

It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2013

Peony - A vibrant and beautiful girl raised in China by her widower father. He taught her reading, calligraphy, painting and kung fu. At age four, she resisted foot-binding. At 16,

• Publisher : A&C Black
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 May 2011

Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 05 May 1994

A catalog illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection and the Rannerdale Collection, this bilingual volume includes essays on the art of Chinese jade carving.