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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Chen, Ying
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Ying Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1961. She obtained a degree in French language and literature from Shanghai University in 1983 and worked as a translator and interpreter before emigrated to Montreal in 1989. Chen completed an M.A. at McGill University in 1991. She published her first novel, La mémoire de l'eau, in French in 1992 and has published many others since then: Les lettres chinoises, Immobile, Le champ dans la mer, Querelle d'un squelette avec son double and Le mangeur. L'ingratitude, published in 1995, was translated into English and published in both Canada and the United States in 1998. It was also translated into Spanish, Serbian, Italian, and Chinese. Chen now lives in Vancouver, B.C. |
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Fiction
Ingratitude
Translated from the French by Carol Volk.
Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1998.
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L'ingratitude: roman (Original French language version)
Montréal: Leméac, 1995.
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Publisher's Synopsis
All her life, Yan-Zi has been dominated by her mother, who scolds her, corrects her behavior and manners, urges her to adopt bourgeois mores, and ceaselessly reminds her that her very life is a debt she owes to others, especially her mother. So Yan-Zi decides to commit suicide in order to shake off the yoke of her mother's love. In this novel she tells the story of her last days with a cool, cruel detachment that recalls Camus's The Stranger.
Awards and Honours (for the original French language edition)
1996 Prix des libraires du Québec--Lauréats Roman québécois
1995 Prix Québec-Paris (Winner)
1995 Governor General's Literary Awards, Fiction--French language (Nominated)
1995 Prix fémina (Fémina Prize) (Nominated) |
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Anthology
Passages: Welcome Home to Canada
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Chen, Ying.. "On the Verge of Disappearance (End of the Chinese Letters)." In Passages: Welcome Home to Canada. Initiated by Westwood Creative Artists and the Dominion Institute. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002.
Contributors: Michelle Berry • Ying Chen • Brian D. Johnson • Dany Laferriere • Alberto Manguel • Anna Porter • Nino Ricci • Shyam Selvadurai • M. G. Vassanji • Ken Wiwa • Moses Znaimer
This book grew out of the Dominion Institute's Memory Project. Read some of Chen's memories and view a couple of photos from thememoryproject website. |
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Memoir/Diaries
Quatre mille marches: un rêve chinois
Paris: Seuil, 2004.
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Awards and Honors
2000 Gabrielle Roy Prize for writing on Canadian literature
(Winner) |
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Criticism and Interpretation
Dagenais, Natasha. "The River of Memory: Traduction de "La Memoire de l'eau" de Ying Chen." M.A. diss., Université de Sherbrookel, 2001.
Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Fu, Roy Yong Le. "Struggling Productions: Ying Chen and the Representation of Cultural Identity in Quebec, 1992-1999." M.A. diss., Concordia University, 2000.
Ng, Maria, "Abusive Mothers: Literary Representations of the Mother Figure in Three Ethnic Chinese Writers: Hsieh Ping-ying, Denise Chong, and Chen Ying." In Asian Women: Interconnections, ed. Tineke Hellwig and Sunera Thobani, 139-160. Toronto: Women's Press, 2006.
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Yamade, Yuko. "Identity, Translation and Embodiment in Migrant and Minority Women's Writings in Japan, English Canada and Quebec." Ph.D. diss., Université de Montréal, 2002.
Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses |
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