Public History

Museum of Vancouver and the Chinese Canadian Museum exhibit symbolizes the Chinese-Canadian struggle for a “seat at the table”

Museum of Vancouver and the Chinese Canadian Museum exhibit symbolizes the Chinese-Canadian struggle for a “seat at the table”

Professor Henry Yu remembers speaking with his writing professor in his office decades ago as an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia. The professor made an offhand comment that Yu “writes well for an Asian.” When asked today what inspired a new exhibit in Vancouver’s Chinatown that challenges the notion that Chinese-Canadians don’t […]