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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Bates, Judy Fong
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Judy Fong Bates was born in China in 1949
and came to Canada as a young child. She grew up in several
small Ontario towns. She taught elementary school in Toronto
and was active in the local storytelling community before
devoting herself more fully to writing. Some of her stories
have been broadcast on CBC radio. Bates now lives on a farm outside of Toronto. |
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Fiction (Short Stories)
China Dog and Other Tales From a Chinese Laundry
Toronto: Sister Vision, 1997.
New York: Counterpoint, 2002. [This edition has cover title:
China Dogs and Other Stories From a Chinese
Laundry]
9th floor PS8553
.A84 C45 2002
Publisher's Synopsis (Sister Vision)
Set in small town Ontario, these vivid, richly textured,
often wryly funny stories, bring together a host of Chinese
immigrants, from the turn of the century to the present. Fong
Bates' dazzling assortment of characters will arouse, capture
and delight. She is a storyteller confident in her authority
and language. |
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Fiction
Midnight at the Dragon Café
Toronto: M&S, 2004.
9th floor PS8553
.A84 M44 2004
Publisher's Synopsis
Set in a small Ontario town in the 1960s, [this] is the story
of a young girl whose life is changed over the course of one
summer when she learns the burden of secrets and, ultimately,
something of forgiveness.
... Bates vividly captures a time and place and the complexities
of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unspoken
secrets and unfulfilled longings.
Awards and Honours
2005 Evergreen Award, Fiction -- Ontario Library Association (Nominated)
2006 Alex Award -- American Library Association (One of ten winners)
2006 ALA Notable Book for Adult Fiction
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Anthology (Short story/Excerpt from work in progress)
Tok. Book 3
9th floor PS8237 .T6 T54 2008
Bates, Judy Fong. "If You Only Knew." In Tok. Book 3, edited by Helen Walsh. Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2008, 71-79. |
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Non Fiction
The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2010
9th floor PS8553 .A827 Z478 2010
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family's difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter's search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents' past lives. |
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