Voices Rising

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.

Anthony Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961:
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.