北京外国语大学英语学院学术论坛系列
SEIS Academic Forum Series (NO.473)
Lecture Series on Canadian Studies (NO.24)

加拿大华裔知名作家研讨会
Seminar on Chinese Canadian Literature

By
Prize-winning Writers
Denise Chong     SKY Lee    Jim Wong-Chu    Judy Fong Bates   

Time:          4:00 - 5:30 pm
Date:           Sep27, 2013 (Friday)
Venue:         Room 115, SEIS Building   
Language:   English

About the Speakers

Denise Chong (郑蔼龄)
She is a writer and a former public servant and political advisor. She was senior economic advisor to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Internationally-published, and a two-time finalist for the Governor-General’s literary award for non-fiction, Chong's award-winning work, The Concubine’s Children, about her mother’s family who lived divided between China and Canada, was a national best-seller for 93 weeks. Chong’s other books have also been ground-breaking social histories. With her fourth book, Lives of the Family, due out this fall, Chong returns to the stories of the Chinese who immigrated to Canada, this time in the decade after 1949, when Canada, after barring Chinese immigration for two and a half decades, allowed it to resume. Chong was recently named as an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour.

SKY Lee(李群英)
SKY Lee is a fiction writer. She illustrated Paul Yee's first children's book, Teach Me How to Fly, Skyfighter. She is the author of "Bellydancer Stories." She is co-editor of Telling it: Women & Words Across Culture, which explores the issues of racism and homophobia experienced by women of color in Canada. She identifies as a Chinese Canadian feminist and activist. SKY Lee received great critical and commercial success with the publication of her novel, Disappearing Moon Café (1990). It was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award. The novel won the City of Vancouver Book Award.

Jim Wong-Chu (朱蔼信)
Jim Wong-Chu is a historian and poet and a founding member of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop. The workshop is dedicated to the development and nurturing of emerging writers particularly from Chinese and Pacific Rim Asian Canadian descent and is the publisher of Ricepaper magazine. He has co-edited numerous anthologies of Chinese Canadian writing and his own published work, Chinatown Ghosts, is the first book of poetry in English by a Chinese Canadian author.

Judy Fong Bates(方曼俏)
Judy Fong Bates has taught and mentored students in creative writing through the University of Toronto, Trent University and Diaspora Dialogues. Her stories have been broadcast on CBC radio and published in literary journals and anthologies. She has written for The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post. She is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection, China Dog and Other Stories, and the novel, Midnight at the Dragon Café, which won the Everybody Reads selection for Portland, Oregon, and an American Library Association Notable Book for 2006. Her family memoir, The Year of Finding Memory, was published in April, 2010 and was listed as one of the top 100 books of the year by The Globe and Mail.

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