Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Spiritual Pursuits and Other Stories
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- May 2023
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Cultural Heritage
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774151006
- Publish Date
- May 2023
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
These five long stories, set in multi-ethnic Toronto, explore contemporary Chinese living in Canada. How can Chinese artists, brought up in the brush-painting traditions of China, find a living in Canada? How do they relate to the current lucrative art market of their native country? Two of the stories look in detail at strategies of survival by recently retired women. Chinese cuisine is integral to the lives described.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Lien Chao came to Canada in 1984. She is the author of Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English (1997), winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her other publications include Tiger Girl: Hu Nü (2001), a creative memoir about growing up in Mao's China; The Chinese Knot and Other Stories (2008); and two previous collections of bilingual poetry, Maples and the Stream (1999) and More Than Skin Deep (2004).
Other titles by Lien Chao
Salt in My Life
Tiger Girl (Hu Nu)
A Creative Memoir
Peng Ma
Abstract Ink Painting
Wang Dehui
Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings
Chinese Knot, The
and other stories
More Than Skin Deep
Poetry in English and Chinese
Strike the Wok
New Chinese Canadian Anthology, A
Tiger Girl (Hu Nu)
A Creative Memoir
Maples and the Stream
A Narrative Poem
Beyond Silence
Chinese-Canadian Literature in English