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West Coast Chinese Boy
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July 11, 2016
This is one of my all-time favorite autobiographies. Partly because it is told through the author's drawings, making it a graphic novel-memoir before we routinely used the category. This tells the story of growing up in Vancouver, in the Chinese community Chinatown around the early 1900s. Charming and gentle, yet the story also touches on important themes such as racism - why the Chinese are forced to live together in shacks, wondered the author at age 6, etc.
October 12, 2012
The story of Sing Lim's growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown is wonderful but this version published by Tundra in 1991 is an abomination - Lim did wonderful colour illustrations that have been totally taken out of context and placed on four pages in teeny tiny versions - dreadful! I will have to search out the original
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