Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: Mapping Asian Canadian Cultural Activism

1 The Culture Question

2 Inventing Asian Canadian Culture

3 Becoming "Asian Canadian"

4 The Site of Memory

5 Differently Together

6 Redefining Asian Canadian Women

Section II:

7 Emergence

Harry Aoki

Tamio Wakayama

Aiko Suzuki

Keith Lock

Terry Watada

David Kenji Fujino

Sean Gunn

Keeman Wong

Section III:

8 Cross the Threshold

Fumiko Kiyooka

William Lau

Brenda Joy Lem

Gu Xiong

Kyo Maclear

Mina Shum

Valerie Sing Turner

Section IV:

9 Moving Ahead

Alvin Erasga Tolentino

Wayne Yung

Kagan Goh

Norman Lup

Man Yeung

Jen Lam

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

An immensely important book. As the first in-depth analysis of Asian Canadian artistic and cultural life, Voices Rising will be referred to in years to come as a definitive work. It is not only full of interesting characters, but contains a succinct historical narrative that explains the genesis of the Asian Canadian social and creative movements, and shows how they have responded to the Canadian nation and a global world. -- Anthony Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961 Voices Rising is an outstanding contribution to Asian Canadian cultural scholarship, combining illuminating historical analysis with extensive interviews across several generations. The interviews alone are a fascinating record of the cultural apprenticeship and personal life stories of important activists and artists. This book is essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students in the areas of Canadian literature, history, cultural studies, critical race theory, and Asian North American studies, and it is an excellent text for courses in the expanding field of Asian Canadian writing and culture." -- Glenn Deer, associate editor of Canadian Literature

About the Author

Xiaoping Li is an independent researcher and professor in the Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Okanagan College, British Columbia.

Reviews

This is an important and largely useful book. Its more trenchant perceptions should become embedded in the textbooks that still largely understate the overall significance of the long ordeal of the North American Japanese.-- (01/01/2012)