CBC Radio One, The Georgia Straight, The Vancouver Readers & Writers Festival, 
The Vancouver Public Library, Chinese Canadian Historical Society, and explorASIAN are pleased to present…

Paul Yee with Saltwater City: The Story of Vancouver’s Chinese Community

Wednesday, May 17, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

CBC Radio Studio One
700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
 

Come celebrate the completely redesigned and revised edition of this best-selling landmark book, 
first published in 1988, which told the epic story of Vancouver's Chinese community and 
its extraordinary growth from marginal to centre stage in a new world order. 

The new edition includes the years 1987 to 2001, when Vancouver’s Chinese population grew rapidly.

The text resonates with often painful first-person recollections and includes 200 photographs, 
most reproduced for the first time, to form a chronological portrait of the community from 
its earliest beginnings to the present. With the assimilation of its people into the mainstream of 
Canadian life following World War II, Saltwater City, as early Chinese immigrants called the community, 
was threatened, but changes in attitude, government policy, and the opening of diplomatic relations 
with China instead caused a renaissance. Now, Vancouver's Chinese community enjoys considerable 
political and financial influence and has matured beyond recognition into one of Canada's 
most successful ethnic enclaves.

Paul Yee, a third-generation Chinese-Canadian, was born in Saskatchewan, grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, 
and worked for the Vancouver City Archives before moving to Toronto in 1988. He has written several fiction, 
non-fiction, childrens and young adult books. His latest books include Bamboo, Chinatowns in Canada, 
and Is This Screwed, Or What?.
 
The CBC Studio One Book Club is an intimate gathering of ONLY 120 audience members. 
It is hosted by Sheryl MacKay of CBC Radio and John Burns of the Georgia Straight, 
and is recorded for broadcast on North by Northwest and other CBC Radio programs. 
Microphones are set up for audience questions. We encourage you to join in, your participation in the 
CBC Radio Studio One Book Club is an important part of the broadcast. This is your chance to talk to 
Paul Yee about his books, fiction and non-fiction, his work as an archivist, his history and more!

The only way to get in, is to win!  Enter online at http://www.cbc.ca/bc/bookclub/paulyee.html
For your chance to win two tickets to be part of this Book Club, tell us (in 200 words or less) 
why you would like to be in the audience to meet Paul Yee. 

Entries close midnight, Sunday, May 14, 2006

All winners will be notified by email. Each winner will receive two tickets. No tickets available at the door.