Chinatown Ghosts: The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu

by Jim Wong-Chu

Overview

Jim Wong-Chu was the founder of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop which spawned many literary stars, including Madeleine Thien, Denise Chong, and Wayson Choy. When he passed away in 2017, at the age of sixty-eight, he left not only a void in the Asian Canadian writing and publishing community but also a legacy of his own work that was never fully recognized.

Jim’s poems speak eloquently to the Chinese experience in North America, both historical and present-day. This book includes Jim’s evocative Chinatown photographs, revealing the soul of a community threatened by gentrification and displacement.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551527499
Publisher:	Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Jim Wong-Chu (1949-2017) was a poet, author, editor, and historian, and the founder of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and Ricepaper magazine. He co-edited numerous anthologies including AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine and Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry.

Table of Contents

A Chinatown Ghost: In Loving Memory of Jim Wong-Chu 9

Tradition 39

How feel I do? 41

Baptism (1909) 43

Equal opportunity 45

Mother 49

Ice 54

Fourth uncle 56

Journey to merritt 58

Old chinese cemetery kamloops july 1977 60

The oldest 63

The newspaper vending kwan yin 64

Scenes from the mon sheong home for the aged 68

Listen listen 75

The old country 77

Jimmy the waiter 78

Hippo luck 80

The egg roll kid 82

The gospel according to edsel ford fung 84

Centipede 88

Of course there are ghosts 90

Coffee ghosts 92

The south china homecoming of klondike lee 94

Pender street east 96

Curtain of rain 97

Old friend 99

Inspection of a house paid in full 101

Tickles 103

Seagull afternoon 106

Peasants 108

Boundary bay 110

Eating fish 111

Memories of old kubla khan nightclub 112

Dreams 115

Nearing 116

Monsoon 118

The aerialist 119

Not the first time 120

Rain 121

Medley in ink and brush 122

Merritt b.c. revisited 1965 123