🧵#DocumentaryFilms I've enjoyed this month - in no particular order.

A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generations of Chinese Canadian women. It is an amazing tale of courageous women who left behind their families, knowing they would never see them again and of girls who were shipped off to the New World to marry men they had never met. These are the women who fought against the many forms of racism they faced in Canada while, at the same time, challenging sexism within their own communities. By passing on language, culture, and values to their children, these women defined what it means to be Chinese Canadian. Beautiful old photographs from family albums, the recollections of seven women who grew up in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, and the memories of narrator and director, Dora Nipp, whose grandfather came to Canada in 1881 to build the railway, create a remarkable story of stunning impact.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/under-the-willow-tree-pioneer-chinese-women/

#AsianMastodon #ChineseWomen #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChinesePioneers #ChineseCanadianHistory #WomensHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #FilmsFriday

How a thriving #ChineseCommunity was built despite #racism & #hardships.

For the #Chinese community of #Newfoundland & #Labrador it's a thriving community built in spite of racism, hardship & #discriminatory government policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7204696

#AsianMastodon #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCanadian #ChineseHistoryInCanada #ChineseImmigrants #ChinesePioneers

📜 The Chinese diaspora ‘needs to rise up’ about atrocities against Uyghurs — Q&A with human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat
Politics & Current Affairs

Rayhan Asat comments on China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Muslim world’s silence on ongoing rights abuses against Uyghurs in China, and the responsibility of the Chinese diaspora in advocating for human rights.

By Jonathan Landreth
Published October 30, 2023

「Rayhan Asat is one of the most vocal advocates today for the Uyghur people, her people, whose homeland in northwestern China is the scene of the Communist Party’s ongoing commission of what the United Nations says may be “crimes against humanity,” and what U.S. President Joseph Biden called a “genocide.” Among the roughly 1 million Turkic peoples detained, imprisoned, and forced into labor there — most of them Muslims — is Asat’s younger brother. Ekpar Asat was picked up by Chinese authorities and sentenced to 15 years in prison after returning from an educational exchange program in the U.S. sponsored by the Department of State. Speaking from London, Asat called for stronger human rights allies and reflected on the news of the growing conflict in the Middle East and the hypocrisy she sees in China and among global activists who are unwilling to confront China.

This is an edited transcript of our conversation.」

「In any sort of crisis, historically, it ends with the people rising up against the totalitarian government. But I just don’t see how Chinese people would. Chinese people wouldn’t do that out of fear, ignorance and lack of solidarity. They wouldn’t. There is less sense of civic duty.」

(The entire exchange is worth reading...👇️)

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/10/30/the-chinese-diaspora-needs-to-rise-up-about-atrocities-against-uyghurs-qa-with-human-rights-lawyer-rayhan-asat/

#TheChinaProject #RayhanAsat #Uyghurs '#xinjiang' #Palestine #CCP #china #chinese #chinesediaspora #colonialism #slavery #genocide #authoritarianism #humanrights

Homemade #BanhMi sub for late lunch.

#AsianMastodon #CholonDistrictRefugees #Teochew #ChineseDiaspora #VietnameseFood #AsianFood #EthnicEats #CulturalFoods #POCfood #lunch

Have decided to read "Yellowface" by Rebecca K. Kuang. There seems to be quite a bit of controversy about it. Will be interesting to see why... I'm just looking to continue my journey of literature about the Chinese diaspora.

I hope to be able to turn it into a teachable topic at some point. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears 😃

#ChineseDiaspora #Diaspora #Teaching #Fiction

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59357120