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Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
198126 min 27 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Richard Patton
Production: Jennifer TorranceGeorge JohnsonJohn Taylor
Script: Donald Brittain
Two families, the Changs and the Lims, tell the story of the Chinese community in Vancouver from widely different perspectives. Chang Yun Ho arrived in Canada in 1908. His generation never integrated into the Canadian mainstream, partly because of the passage of the Asiatic Exclusion Act that fostered racism. By contrast, Liz and Herb Lim were born in Canada and grew up in Chinatown. They now live in the suburbs, totally acculturated to Canadian ways.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > British ColumbiaChinese OriginsImmigration Experience and Social Adjustment
Credits
- director
- Richard Patton
- producer
- Jennifer Torrance
- George Johnson
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- writer
- Donald Brittain
- cinematography
- Tony Westman
- sound
- Ralph Parker
- Barry P. Jones
- editing
- George Johnson
- narrator
- Judy Piercey
- music
- J. Douglas Dodd