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Jun 24, 2024 · Name: 于洋 / Yue Yeung (Yu Yang) English name: Henry Yu. Also known as: Yu Yeung / Yu Yung / Yue Young. Profession: Actor. Birthplace: Hong Kong.
Henry Yu is a scholar of migration, race and colonialism involved in the collaborative effort to reimagine the history of Vancouver and of British Columbia through the concept of “Pacific Canada,” a perspective that focuses on how migrants from Asia, Europe, and other parts of the Americas engaged with each other and with First Nations ...
Prof. Yu co-leads a large programme in an MIT research entity in Singapore; teaches in the University Scholars Programme and runs a distributed research lab in the Mechanobiology Institute, and A*STAR.
- An Apology and Redress
- Surge in Anti-Asian Racism
- Being The 'Perpetual Foreigner'
- 100 Years Later
In 2006, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology to the Chinese Canadian community in the House of Commons. Landy Anderson's grandfather, Ralph Kung Kee Lee, witnessed the ceremony. He was 106 years old at the time, and only one of six living head-tax payers left. Lee arrived in Canada when he was 12 years old, said Anderson. H...
Anti-Asian racism in Canada has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, a survey by the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter (CNCTO) and a grassroots organization called Project 1907 found that there were 943 reports of racist incidents across Canada in 2021 — a 47 per cent increase over 2020. For some Asian-Canadians, the raci...
Canada has a long history of scapegoating the Asian community for societal problems, said Yu, pointing to Japanese internment during the Second World War as just one example. This history could also explain why, as allegations of foreign interference in Canadian elections surface, some Chinese Canadian politicians might have felt the need to defend...
Across the country, governments are marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The City of Burnaby is launching a review of historic discrimination by the municipal government against the Chinese Canadian community. There was also a national remembrance event in the Senate of Canada Chamber on June 23. And on July 1, the Chinese Ca...
Biography. Professor Henry Yu was born in Vancouver, B.C., and grew up in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. He received his BA in Honours History from UBC and an MA and PhD in History from Princeton University.
May 22, 2019 · Henry Yu is a leading voice on Asian migration and discrimination in Canada. He has contributed to apologies, honorary degrees, and a Chinese-Canadian museum, and teaches innovative history courses at UBC.
Professor Henry Yu, a member of the UBC History Department and Principal of St. John's College, presents an overview of the systemic discrimination experienc...
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- Vancouver Historical Society
