These issues occur in the very act of confronting the two very different languages - Chinese and English - with each other, so that the confrontation itself becomes a metaphor of adaptation and conflict of cultures in Canada.
More Than Skin Deep: Poetry in English and Chinese
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Author(s)Lien Chao
PublisherTSAR Publications
ISBN / ASIN1894770188
ISBN-139781894770187
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1 to 2 months
Sales Rank13,274,196
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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In these poems, created in both English and Chinese, Lien Chao evokes the lives of Asian Canadians in all their diversity and depth, as she reflects on the issues of identity, assimilation, and language.