Autor: Paul Yee

Paul Yee is a third-generation Chinese Canadian. Born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, in 1956, he grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, where he had a “typical Chinese-Canadian childhood, caught between two worlds, and yearning to move away from the neighbourhood.” He attended the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia, receiving a Master of the Arts degree in history from the latter in 1983, and has since taught in British Columbia schools; at Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia; in the Vancouver Museum, and for the Chinese Community Library Services Society in Vancouver. He has written and published widely, including two young adult novels, Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter and The Curses of Third Uncle (winner of an Honourable Mention for the 1986 Canada Council Literature Prizes). From 1985 to 1987, Yee served as Chairman of the Saltwater City Exhibition Committee of the Chinese Cultural Centre, and it is out of this work that a major show, a television special, and subsequently this book grew.By profession an archivist, Yee worked for the Vancouver City Archives before moving to Toronto in 1988 to become Multicultural Coordinator for the Archives of Canada.