Publications: Chinese in North America
REFLECTION: My Mother’s Secret Was Canada’s Secret. BC Studies 218 (Summer 2023), 105-113.
Unarchived: In the Eyes of Canada, We Were “Noteworthy.” NFB Blog, September 28, 2023.
On Asian Heritage in Nanaimo. Dr. Imogene Lim chats with CBC’s Claire Palmer about Chinese Canadian history in Nanaimo, and its changing Chinatowns. CBC’s North by Northwest, May 14, 2023, 11:00.
Q&A
Cantonese barbecue meat was almost banned in Canada if not for ‘the good fight’: Vancouver Island professor, interview with Stephen Quinn, CBC’s The Early Edition, November 18, 2022.
Bridging Past and Present: Invisible Made Visible, accompanying essay to Karen Tam’s online exhibit, Autumn Tigers, Art Canada Institute. December 8, 2021.
Erasure 2.0: Gatekeepers, first published in The Heritage BC UPDATE newsletter, September 23, 2021, which is sent to Heritage BC members. It is one of several guest posts published by Heritage BC under Racism: Do Not Let the Forgetting Prevail.
Erasure: A Statement on Racism, Inclusivity and Equality, first published in The Heritage BC UPDATE newsletter, August 5, 2020, which is sent to Heritage BC members. It is one of several “several guest posts, providing the space for the writers to recount their personal experiences about racism, inclusivity and equity.” These can be viewed online.
Mapping Heritage: Chinese Canadian Sites. Panellist, HeritageBC Webinar, Mapping Heritage: Uncovering Community, 29 May 2020. Click for pdf-file. HeritageBC Webinar-on-Demand, complimentary for HeritageBC members.
Book Review: Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants (2019, Douglas & McIntyre). “#592 Ginger beef and fried macaroni,” The Ormsby Review, August 9, 2019.
Book Review: Lindsay Wong, The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family (2018, Arsenal Pulp Press). “#467 Chinese ghosts, Chinese identity,” The Ormsby Review, January 17, 2019.
FORUM – It’s 2017: Echoes of the Past. Lead essay on a forum about naming. BC Studies 195, 97-106. Autumn 2017.
Pender Street, Downtown Eastside. Photograph published online, Digital BC, Monuments, BC Studies, August 2017.
A Canadiana Story, Not the Story You Think: “Chinese” Entrepreneurs. Presentation made at the BC Studies Conference, May 5, 2017, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC. The session, Celebrating the Stuff of Life: Cultural Intersections, was co-sponsored by Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island, a SSHRC project.
Book review: Bennet Bronson and Chuimei Ho, Coming Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in Early Northwest America (2015). Journal of Chinese Overseas 13(1), . May 2017.
On the Menu: Stories About Food and People. One of a series of community talks for the Museum of Vancouver’s All Together Now exhibit, entitled: Me and My Collection, presented September 8, 2016. The exhibit opened June 23, 2016, and has been extended to March from its scheduled closing date of January 8, 2017. For the pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Chinese Canadian Women: Island Stories from the Archives. Invited co-speaker with Dr. John Price, UVic-History, at the Victoria Chinatown Lioness annual lunar new year dinner at the Golden City Restaurant, February 6, 2016. The pdf only includes Dr. Lim’s portion of the PowerPoint presentation; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Vancouver Island: The Chinese Restaurant. Pecha Kucha Vol. 2 – Mines and Yours: Honouring Heritage in Nanaimo. Invited speaker, presentation made at the Port Theatre Lobby, September 26, 2015, Nanaimo, BC. Hosted by the City of Nanaimo, Department of Culture and Heritage. For a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Introduction. In Escape to Gold Mountain, by David H.T. Wong, pp.13-14. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press.
240 pages; ISBN: 9781551524764; EPUB ISBN: 9781551524771; October 2012
Intersecting Lives: Early BC Pioneers. Presentation made at the Barkerville Symposium, June 8, 2012, Barkerville, BC. Hosted by the University of Northern BC and Barkerville Historic Town. For a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Cumberland Chinatown: Place of Origin and Canadian Identity, presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers, “Cumberland Past, Present and Future,” held March 7, 2009, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC. For a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
A Place Called Home. Urban China 23:30-31, 121. Special Issue: Chinatown, November 2007. Photo essay on Cumberland; English translation of text on page 121 of this issue. Photograph text is bilingual–Chinese and English. Click here for pdf; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
In the Shadow of the Past: Two Realities, presented at the workshop/conference, “Public Eyes, Private Lenses: Visualizing the Chinese in Indonesia and North America,” held March 1-3, 2007, Institute of Asian Research, UBC, Vancouver, BC. For a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Here and There: Re/collecting Chinese Canadian History. In Canadian Issues / Thèmes Canadiens, edited by Marie-Pascale Desjardins, pp.61-64. Fall 2006. Click here for pdf; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Canadian Issues / Thèmes Canadiens is a publication of the Association for Canadian Studies. This issue served as the programme for the 5th national conference on the Teaching, Learning and Communicating the History of Canada — “Canada West to East: Teaching History in a Time of Change,” held October 20-22, 2006, Vancouver, BC.
A Picture, A Story: Telling Chinese Canadian History was presented at the session entitled, “The History of the Chinese in BC.” For a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Encountering the Past: Family and Community History. In Shashin: Japanese Canadian Photography to 1942, edited by Phyllis Senese, pp.43-45. Curated by Grace Eiko Thomson. Exhibition catalogue. Burnaby, BC: Japanese Canadian National Museum. 96 pages, June 2005.
Presentations made in conjunction with the Shashin exhibit:
Encountering the Past: Family and Community History, Nikkei Centre (Burnaby), 21 June 2005. For a print-friendly file, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
A Place Called Home: Women and Families in Cumberland, Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery, University of Victoria, 18 May 2005. For a print-friendly file, click here; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Re-collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Edited by Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa. Temple University Press.
Book Description
As a book about cultural memory and retrieval, this collection of essays asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, the original essays here speak to the difficulty of recovering a past that was largely unrecorded as well as understanding the varied experiences of peoples of Asian descent. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from “official” histories; trace the roots of persistent racial stereotypes and myths; and retrieve artistic production that raises vexed questions of what counts as “art” or as Asian American. By reconsidering the political, cultural, and material history written in the last three decades, this volume contributes to a new understanding of Asian America’s past and relationship to the present. –from the publisher
368 pages; ISBN: 1566399637 (hardcover); ISBN: 1566399645 (paperback); August 2002
Reclaiming History: Vision for the Future in Cumberland. The Scrivener 11(2):21-23. [July 2002] Click here for pdf-file; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Chow Mein Sandwiches: Chinese American Entrepreneurship in Rhode Island. Senior author. In Origins and Destinations: 41 Essays on Chinese America, edited by Munson A. Kwok and Ella Yee Quan, pp.417-436. Los Angeles, CA: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, UCLA Asian American Studies Center. 1994. Click here for a pdf-file; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Created 2002-06-06; last updated 2023-06-01