Vancouver artist creates 'Occupying Chinatown' project as city apologizes for historic racism

Vancouver artist Paul Wong is launching a year-long project called Occupying Chinatown, starting the same day that the City of Vancouver issues a formal apology for historic discrimination against Chinese-Canadians on Sunday.

During the upcoming year of residency at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Wong plans to create a series of multidisciplinary artworks based on hundreds of letters written to his mother over 70 years.

“This project really is centred around the translation of 700 letters that were

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