The Yellow Pear
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- Asian American, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551520469
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
The Yellow Pear is a brave and moving document, using words and art, of what it means to be Canadian.
Co-published with the Burnaby Art Gallery, this is a collection of deeply moving narratives (in both English and Mandarin) and illustrations about the artist's transition to a new life in a new land; his life in Canada resonates with the memories of his past in China, which he fled following the 1989 massacre. The book elicits the pangs of cultural estrangement, the pain of what was left behind, and the joy of new faces and surroundings.
About the author
Gu Xiong came to Canada in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square massacre. For a while he was a sanitation worker at a UBC cafeteria, but he currently works in the Fine Arts Department at the University of British Columbia. His artwork has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous galleries since 1985.