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In this new collection, award-winning author Lien Chao weaves together these emotionally charged short stories focusing on Chinese immigrants in Toronto’s multiracial neighbourhoods. In Chinatown and mixed neighbourhoods, in condos and tenements, in public parks and in college, the protagonists of these stories find love, face loneliness, confront generational crises, and overcome racial stereotypes as they evolve and grow in this exciting, ever-changing multicultural society.

In these poems, created in both English and Chinese, Lien Chao evokes the lives of Asian Canadians in all their diversity and depth, as she reflects on the issues of identity, assimilation, and language. These issues occur in the very act of confronting the two very different languages--Chinese and English--with each other, so that the confrontation itself becomes a metaphor for adaptation and conflict of cultures in Canada.

This new anthology brings together some of the most exciting works of fiction by contemporary Chinese Canadian writers. Representing three generations of Chinese from a variety of backgrounds, including writers born in Canada as well as places outiside, presenting a diversity of themes and styles, and set in various geographical locations and time periods, Strike the Wok is a truly kaleidoscopic look at Chinese life from modern Canadian perspectives. Internationally renouwned as well as newer voices are included.

Born in the Year of the Tiger, Hu Nü, unwanted female child, is nearly given away as a one-year old-bride in a Chinese village. She grows up during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, when traditional values are challenged by the politicized young, and nonconformity is repressed with brutal humiliation, examples of which she witnesses daily in her neighbourhood and in her school. Hu Nü joins the Red Guard movement more out of fear than conviction, later to reject it bitterly for its senseless cruelty. Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression and outdated attitudes to women. Tiger Girl, (Hu Nü) is the first volume of a proposed trilogy by Lien Chao depicting a generation of Chinese women whose courage leads them through the decades of confusion and despair to new hopes and dreams.

A bilingual Chinese and English poetry collection about the journey of a young Chinese woman from Mao''s China to Canada and the discovery of her poetic voice. The poet renders her story in the two languages side by side, mirroring each other, each telling her tale, alternating between confusion and despair on the on hand and glimmering hopes and dreams on the other.

From unappreciated railway workers facing institutional and communal racism to nominees of national literary awards, the Chinese like other coloured peoples in Canada have made great inroads into the mainstream, which in turn has adjusted its self-image to accommodate diversity. This first book-length study of the literary output in English by Chinese Canadians begins with the 130-year background history of the community in Canada and moves on to examine the genres of mythology, anthology, fiction, poetry, drama and essay, to show how a full Chinese literary consciousness emerged in the country. A ground-breaking work.