106 - The Jade Peony: Post-Exclusion Act Chinese-Canadians

A Cultural History of Canada

In which Patrick talks about Wayson Choy's beautiful novel The Jade Peony and how it portrays the lives of Chinese Canadians of the 1930s. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony, Douglas & McIntyre, 1995.
• Deer, Glenn. An Interview with Wayson Choy. Canadian Literature 163, 1999, pp. 34–44.
• Ty, Eleanor. “‘Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous’: Multiple Voices in Wayson Choyʹs The Jade Peony.” The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 116–34.