Bibliography

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Books:

Sybil Unrest. (Co-authored with Rita Wong.) Vancouver: Line Book, forthcoming 2008.
When Fox Is a Thousand¬. (With new afterword.) Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
Salt Fish Girl. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002.
When Fox Is a Thousand. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1995.

Articles:

Foreword. Accidental Occidental. By David McKirdy. Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2005.

“Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History and Cyborg Hope.” West Coast Line 38:2 (2004): 168-175. (Spec. issue on my work.)

“Political Animals and the Body of History.” The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose. eds. Tammy Roberts et al. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002. 587-596.

“Corrupted Lineage: Narrative in the Gaps of History.” In-Equations: can asia pacific. Spec. issue of West Coast Line 33 (2001): 40-53.

“Yellow Peril: Revisited.” Capilano Review 2.34 (2001): 6-10.

Foreword. Other Conundrums. By Monika Kin Gagnon. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000. 15-20.

“Asian Invasion vs. the Pristine Nation: Migrants Enter the Canadian Imaginary.” Fuse Magazine. 23.2. (2000): 30-40.

“Political Animals and the Body of History.” Canadian Literature 163 (1999): 145-156.

“Dictionaries, Masks and Broken Mirrors: Notes on Ho Tam’s Yellow Pages.” Light Year: A Festival of Photographies. (1997): fold out.

“The Sixth Sensory Organ.” absinthe. 9.1 (1996): 31-35.

“The Sixth Sensory Organ.” Bringing It Home: Women Talk About Feminism in Their Lives. Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1996. 199-218.

“The Site of Memory.” Video re/View: The (best) Source Book on Canadian Artists’ Video. Eds. Peggy Gale and Lisa Steele. Toronto: Vtape, 1996. 344-350.

“Feminist Art Centre Closes: Vancouver Loses Focus.” Kinesis. May 1993. 4.

“Chinese Boxes.” [interruption]. Vancouver: Or Gallery, 1992. 16-34.

Conference Papers:

“Labour Asian Can: National, Institutional and Capital.” TransCanada 2. University of Guelph, October 2007.

“Labour Asian Can: National, Institutional and Capital.” Anniversaries of Change Conference. Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre), September 2007.

“Brand Canada: Oppositional Politics, Global Flows and a People to Come,” Negotiating Diversity: Transatlantic Exchanges Between Canada and Europe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, April 2007.

“Community Action, Global Spillage: Writing the Race of Capital,” Serial Accomodations: Diasporic Asian Women’s Writing, University of British Columbia, March 2007.

“The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” No Language is Neutral: A Conference on Dionne Brand, Toronto, October 2006.

“Laugh of Liberation: The Carnivalesque in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms.” Wild Words: 2005 Alberta Centennial Literary Celebration. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, October 2005.

"Strategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent Subjects, and Marketing the Nation.” Beyond Autoethnography: Writing Race and Ethnicity in Canada. Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, April 2005.

“I See You Watching: Gender, Race and Cyber-subjectivity in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” Blurring the Boundaries: Transrealism and Other Movements, 26th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 2005.

“RIM Manifesto.” With Rita Wong and Glen Lowry. Poetics and Public Culture: A Conference in Honour of Frank Davey. University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. March 2005.
“Citizen: Imagination and Agency.” Round table discussion with Fred Wah, Wayde Compton, Samir Gandesha, and Sophie McCall. SFU Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 2005.
“Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History and Cyborg Hope.” Canadian Studies Conference, Greifswald, Germany, June 2004.

“Recollection Without A Cause: Trauma and Absence in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans." Negotiating the Past: An International Conference on Asian British and Asian American Literatures, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2003.

“Recollection Without A Cause: Trauma and Absence in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans." Free Exchange Graduate Student conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, March 2002.

“Corrupted Lineage,” Renegotiating Identities: Canadian Studies in the Asian Pacific Context. Combined conference of the 2nd Asian-Pacific Conference in Canadian Studies and The Biennial Conference of the Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, July 1-4, 2000.

“Political Animals and the Body of History,” Making History, Constructing Race conference, University of Victoria, October 23-25, 1998.

Monograph:

The Site of Memory: Chinaman’s Peak: Walking the Mountain. Banff: The Walter Phillips Gallery, 1993.

Journal Issues (Guest Editor):

With Aruna Srivastava, eds. The Body Chronic (Part 1): Women on Trauma, Pain and Illness. Spec. issues of Open Letter 10.7 (2000): 1-107.

With Aruna Srivastava, eds. The Body Chronic (Part 2): Women on Trauma, Pain and Illness. Spec. issues of Open Letter 10.7 (2000): 1-107.

Fiction:

“I Love Liver: A Romance,” Year’s Best SF 11. Eds. David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. New York: EOS, 2006. 176-179.

“An Excerpt from The Corrupted Text.” U Magazine. (Fall 2005): 34-35.

“I Love Liver: A Romance.” Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. 434 (2005): 940.

“Rachel.” So Long Been Dreaming: Post-colonial Science Fiction and Fantasy. Eds. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. 53-60.

“The Combing.” Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks. Ed. Emily Pohl-Weary. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004. 336-344.

“Two Houses and an Airplane.” Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction. Eds. Lien Chao and Jim Wong-Chu. Toronto: TSAR, 2003. 1-18.

“Nu Wa.” First Hand: New Writing. Intr. Andrew Motion. Norwich: University of East Anglia, 2001. 89-96.

“The Salt Fish Girl.” Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America. Eds. Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara. New York: Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2000. 117-122.

“Fish Bones.” Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America. Eds. Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara. New York: Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2000. 123-131.

“Pomegranate Tree.” Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions. Eds. Carellin Brooks and Brett Josef Grubecic. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000. 121-129.

“The Salt Fish Girl.” Seductive Feminisms/Féminismes séduisants. Spec. issue of Tessera 25 (1998/1999): 11-17.

“S.” Prairie Asians. Spec. issue of absinthe. 10.1 (1998): 3-15.

“April’s New Apartment.” Asian Pacific Authors on the Prairies. Spec. issue of Prairie Fire. 18.4 (1997): 23-28.

“The Salt Fish Girl.” Filling Station. 11/12 (1997): 18-23.

“When Fox Is a Thousand.” Urban Fictions. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery, 1997. 40-41.

“The Peacock Hen.” Eye Wuz Here. Ed. Shannon Cooley. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1996. 180-184.

“The Voice of the Blind Concubine.” The Body. Spec. issue of The Asian Pacific American Journal. 5.1 (1996): 93-98.

“Water, and other Measures of Distance.” Into the Fire: Asian American Prose. Eds. Sylvia Watanabe and Carol Bruchac. New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1996. 21-32.

“The Home Body.” Trans. Nicolas Grandmangin. Estuaire. 75 (1994): 33-44.

“New Reeboks.” Colour. An Issue. Eds. Roy Miki and Fred Wah. Spec. issue of West Coast Line. 28.1-2 (1994): 122-128.

Poetry:

“Ham.” West Coast Line. 54.41 (2007): 69-83.

“from Nascent Fashion.” Walrus. 3.5 (2006): 95.

“from Nascent Fashion.” Post-Prairie Anthology. Eds. Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroestch, Vancouver: Talonbooks: 2005. 86-87.

“Rachel.” Switch and Shift: New Canadian Poetry. Eds. Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie and Angela Rawlings, Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2005. 82-84.

“from Maria.” West Coast Line. 38.2 (2004): 6-10.

“from Rachel.” West Coast Line. 38.2 (2004): 12-15.

With Rita Wong. “sybil unrest.” West Coast Line. 38.2 (2004): 39-61.

“2019 and all’s well.” Literary Review of Canada. 12.6 (2004): 16.

“i see double.” Literary Review of Canada. 12.6 (2004): 16.

“burgess quarry.” Ribsauce. Eds. Taien Ng-Chan et al. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2001. 140-141.

“qing ming.” Ribsauce. Eds. Taien Ng-Chan et al. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2001. 141-142.

“white snake.” Ribsauce. Eds. Taien Ng-Chan et al. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2001. 143-144.

“amnion.” Swallowing Clouds. Eds. Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999. 134.

“fish ball girl.” Swallowing Clouds. Eds. Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999. 135.

“upsidedown poem.” Swallowing Clouds. Eds. Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999. 136-138.

“dispersing: an i ching poem.” Swallowing Clouds. Eds. Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999. 139-142.

“asian bird flu.” Swallowing Clouds. Eds. Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999. 143-144.

“tell: longing and belonging.” Pearls of Passion. Eds. Makeda Silvera and C. Allyson Lee. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994. 87-90.

“The Escape.” West Coast Line. 26.2 (1992): 100-103.

“Calling Home.” West Coast Line. 26.2 (1992): 104-105.

“Nostagia.” Harbour: Magazine of Art and Everyday Life. 1.4 (1992): 27-29.

“Shade.” Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writers’ Quarterly. 52.4 (1991): 63-64.

“Arrangements.” The Capilano Review. 2.6/7 (1991): 16.

“Glory.” The Capilano Review. 2.6/7 (1991): 17.

“Eighty Years Bathing.” Many-Mouthed Birds. Eds. Jim Wong-Chu and Bennett Lee. Vancouver: McClelland and Stewart, 1991. 47.

“Where.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.2 (1991): 27.

“Trap One.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.2 (1991):28.

“Trap Two.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.2 (1991): 29.

“Bone China.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.2 (1991): 30-31.

“Nora.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.2 (1991): 32.

“Looking for China in the Glass.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.1 (1991): 13-14.

“The Silk Weaver.” Contemporary Verse 2. 14.1 (1991): 15.

“Eighty Years Bathing.” Room of One’s Own. 14.2 (1991): 106.

“The Birdwoman.” Matrix. 32 (1990): 14.

“Lullabye for the Insect Catcher.” Matrix. 32 (1990): 14.

Chapbooks:

welcome to asian women in business/ a one stop site for entrepreneurs. Calgary: MODL Press, 2004.

Maria. Calgary: True Lai’s Chapbook Press, 2004.

Nascent Fashion. Calgary: True Lai’s Chapbook Press, 2004.

Rachel. Calgary: True Lai’s Chapbook Press, 2004.

With Rita Wong. Sybil Unrest. Vancouver: West Coast Line, 2004.

Feminine Sourcery. Vancouver: True Lai’s Chapbook Press, 2000.

Reviews:

“Review: Curator Andrea Fatona’s Queer Collaborations.” Kinesis. Oct. 1993: 19.

“Jamelie Hassan and Jamila Ismail: Doubling Identities.” Kinesis. June 1993. 17.

“Offical Archives/ Personal History: a Review of Sharyn Yuen’s Like a Plague of Locusts.” Harbour. Spring 1993. 31-35.

“Words for the Unspoken: Review of All Names Spoken.” Kinesis. Mar. 1993. 17.

“Reclaiming Fabled Territory.” Rungh. 1.1/2 (1992): 34-37.

“Culture Jocks: Race to the Screen in Review.” Fuse. 15.1/2 (1991): 11-13.

“Eye on Events: Race to the Screen.” Trans-FM. Mar. 1991. 20.

“Four Asian Film/Video Makers.” The Independent Eye. Spring/Summer 1991. 31-35.

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