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Denise Chong

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June 09, 1953 in Vancouver, Canada

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Denise Chong, writer, public servant, political advisor (b at Vancouver, BC 9 June 1953). Denise Chong, a third-generation Canadian of Chinese descent, grew up in Prince George. She earned a BA in Economics at the University of British Columbia (1975) and an MA in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (1978). Chong began her writing career as a journalist on the Ubyssey, the UBC student newspaper. Denise Chong is renowned as a writer and commentator on Canadian history and on the family.

A 1987 visit to her mother's ancestral village in Guangdong inspired Chong's best-known book, The Concubine's Children (1994). It is the story of her grandmother May Ying (the concubine) and her mother Hing, and their life in the Chinatown...more

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Average rating: 3.80 · 850 ratings · 110 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Concubine's Children 3.76 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War 3.83 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 1900 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Penguin Anthology Of Stories By Canadian Women 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Vetonamu No Shōjo: Sekai De Mottomo Yūmei Na Sensōshashin Ga Michibiita Unmei 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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