Inside Chinatown (PDF)
Ancient Culture in a New World
(Sprache: Englisch)
Victoria's Chinatown is Canada's oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind the doors of the 29 private clubs that make up the Chinese...
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Victoria's Chinatown is Canada's oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind the doors of the 29 private clubs that make up the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, where you'll see the gilded altars, antique art and ornate furniture that grace the meeting halls. Through stunning pictures and text in both Chinese and English, you will meet the club members and take an inside look at the culture of this complex community. Inside Chinatown is sure to become a landmark publication chronicling the vibrant heritage of Chinese Canadians.Inside Chinatown was voted Monday Magazine's Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and authors Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong were presented with a 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award from BC Heritage for their work on Inside Chinatown.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Amos, Kileasa Wong
Robert Amos is a full-time artist who began painting professionally in 1980; a five-part panorama of Chinatown's Fisgard Street was the centrepiece of his first exhibition. He is the author of Artists in Their Studios: Where Art is Born (TouchWood Editions). Since 1986, Robert has been the art writer for the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper and his drawings of Victoria's Chinatown have appeared on almost every issue of the Victoria Chinatown Newsletter. Robert lives in Victoria, BC. Please visit www.robertamos.com.Kileasa Wong was born Wu Chewan in Hong Kong, the daughter of a family from Chaozhou in the northeast corner of Guangdong Province. She moved to Canada with her husband in 1974 and is now the secretary of Victoria's Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the editor of the Victoria Chinatown Newsletter. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a master's degree in education from the University of Victoria, and is the foremost teacher of traditional Chinese painting in Victoria. She is also the principal of the Chinese Public School on Fisgard Street. Kileasa lives in Victoria, BC.
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- Autoren: Robert Amos , Kileasa Wong
- 2009, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1926971906
- ISBN-13: 9781926971902
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2009
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