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Chinatown News was Vancouver's first Chinese News magazine published in English for the Chinese Canadian community. The entire Chinatown News series was published from its establishment in 1948 to 1996. The bulk of the collection consists of 796 paper magazines published between 1954 and 1992.

Abstract Martin Yan, the legendary chef of the hit show Yan Can Cook, joins MOCA to discuss his inspiring and heartwarming story. After immigrating to California in his teens, Yan started teaching at U.C. Davis to earn enough money to attend college himself. After college, he left the U.S. and moved to Canada, where he became a Canadian citizen. A serendipitous cancellation by another chef on a popular Canadian TV station led the camera crew to reach out to Yan, who had fed and entertained them many...