New Voices: Chinese Canadian Narratives
Website: http://www.newvoicesproject.org/
Email Address: newvoices@newvoicesproject.org
Editor/Consultant: Undisclosed
Country: Canada
Type: Organization
Description: The New Voices Project is a student-initiated, non-profit community project that is aimed to publish an anthology of literary and artistic works by self-identified Chinese-Canadians. The purpose of this project is to give voice to new Chinese-Canadians currently living in the Lower Mainland. The idea for this project grew out of a discussion between several Chinese-Canadian university students from UBC on the politics behind the representation of Asians in mainstream North American culture. We came to realize that the so-called “Chinese-Canadian community” is actually a very limited representation, since when we evoke this term, what is generally understood (by both conventional society as well as Chinese consciousness in Canada) is Canada-born Chinese – a community whose roots can be traced back to the development of historic Chinatowns. Chinese-Canadian history, then, refers to what we refer to as the “railway narrative”, originating from previous generations of Chinese who came to Canada up to 150 years ago to escape poverty and political plights, and continuing on Chinese who descended from these pioneers.
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Website: http://www.newvoicesproject.org/
Email Address: newvoices@newvoicesproject.org
Editor/Consultant: Undisclosed
Country: Canada
Type: Organization
Description: The New Voices Project is a student-initiated, non-profit community project that is aimed to publish an anthology of literary and artistic works by self-identified Chinese-Canadians. The purpose of this project is to give voice to new Chinese-Canadians currently living in the Lower Mainland. The idea for this project grew out of a discussion between several Chinese-Canadian university students from UBC on the politics behind the representation of Asians in mainstream North American culture. We came to realize that the so-called “Chinese-Canadian community” is actually a very limited representation, since when we evoke this term, what is generally understood (by both conventional society as well as Chinese consciousness in Canada) is Canada-born Chinese – a community whose roots can be traced back to the development of historic Chinatowns. Chinese-Canadian history, then, refers to what we refer to as the “railway narrative”, originating from previous generations of Chinese who came to Canada up to 150 years ago to escape poverty and political plights, and continuing on Chinese who descended from these pioneers.
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