Chinese Feed
| Host: | Claus Lao Schunke |
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After 27 chapters of Chinese Feed’s previous cycle about my life in China, I learned that all along I had been broadcasting from the former Laundry of Infinite Achievements – generally referred to as a Chinese laundry. Rather late, also politically dubious but - as I have found since - not surprising, what with Nelson’s official silence about local Chinese, the lack of an officially recorded local history and this non-history not taught in Nelson’s schools.
So – Heritage City what.
This new closer-to-home cycle of Chinese Feed is my acknowledgment of those Chinese who - against tremendous odds - contributed greatly to putting British Columbia and Nelson on the map!
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Episodes
Dec 22 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Is
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 16
The only advice his father can give him is this - "When you meet someone with black hair who speaks your language you must be very polite, and then that person will help you."
Download MP3 of this EpisodeDec 15 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 15
When Project Ma is finally ready to go to Canada by himself he is 12 years old, does not speak English and owes the man in Nelson $700.00. He knows his life will be difficult, but he also knows that his whole family's future well-being is in his hands - and he accepts that.
Dec 08 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 14
The judge says to her - "You don't speak English, you don't have any skills or a job. Why should Canada make you a citizen? You have nothing to give to Canada!" Cameron Ma interprets. She says to him - "You tell the judge that I will give 4 prime ministers to Canada!"
Dec 01 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 13
And the government - breathlessly naive and ignorant - eventually gets into sex and the Chinese male as well, passing a law forbidding employment of white women in Chinese-run restaurants. Sex on the brain and in the kitchen!
Nov 24 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 12
An F.C. Innes is listed in the Nelson Assessment Records of 1899 as owner of 346 unimproved lots. His address is given as Victoria. Nothing else - just Victoria!
Nov 17 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 11
"Just as one of the lower animals will go and remain where he is fed, so the Chinaman will go and stay for a certain time in a place where he is paid a certain wage - admittedly not high."
Nov 10 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 10
In Aug. 2009, a CBC presentation - The Iron Horse - is several hours and way too long. Within a vague context using historical factoids in an at best annoyingly simplistic spectaclet with a cast of few acting badly for the money.
Nov 03 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 9
The two dragons twirling around each other, tossing boulders, raking deep gashes. And when that happens railroad construction must stop until the road-dragon is attended to.
Oct 26 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 8
In Victoria it is said that in 1882 alone 2200 Chinese die, although until 1897 the work-related death of a Chinese officially does not have to be reported.
Oct 20 2009 - Chinese Feed
The Chinese Community of Nelson-As-Was
and
How Did It Get Here?
Chapter 7
The first mayor of Nelson, John Houston - nicknamed "Truth" and totally anti-Chinese - has his very own monument guarding Vernon Street, the red line dividing Anglo Upper Hill and Lower Hill Chinatown.
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