{"id":6109,"date":"2025-01-24T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:16","slug":"chinese-canadian-stories-in-burnaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2025\/chinese-canadian-stories-in-burnaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooted: Chinese Canadian Stories in Burnaby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Rooted: Chinese Canadian Stories in Burnaby\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-240x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-240x171.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-160x114.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g-360x257.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/g.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #080809;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #080809;\">The <em>Stand With Asians Coalition<\/em> (SWAC), co-founded by Doris Wai Ki Mah, an alumna of the MPM class 2022, was featured in the first edition of <em>Rooted: Chinese Canadian Stories in Burnaby<\/em>. Chinese Canadians have been part of Burnaby for over a century, contributing significantly to the community in various sectors including business, technology, innovation, agriculture, arts and culture, education, and government. While it is crucial to acknowledge these many contributions, it is equally important to highlight the racism and discrimination they have faced historically and continue to experience today. The stories and photographs featured in this book serve as powerful reminders of the hardships endured by many Chinese Canadians, particularly during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act. <em>Rooted<\/em> is now available at all Burnaby public libraries and 51 schools, making it an invaluable resource for residents of Burnaby to learn about the rich and complex history of Chinese Canadians in our city.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca\/EN\/main\/about\/news\/news-archives\/2023\/rooted-chinese-canadian-stories-in-burnaby.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stand With Asians Coalition (SWAC), co-founded by Doris Wai Ki Mah, an alumna of the MPM class 2022, was featured in the first edition of Rooted: Chinese Canadian Stories in Burnaby. Chinese Canadians have been part of Burnaby for over a century, contributing significantly to the community in various sectors including business, technology, innovation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}