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Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Fred Wah speech in Nanjing on August 23, 1996"],"item_title_source":["Cassette and J-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Wah, Fred","Zhang, Zijing","Huang, Fan","Zhou, Jun"],"creator_names_search":["Wah, Fred","Zhang, Zijing","Huang, Fan","Zhou, Jun"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211\",\"name\":\"Wah, Fred\",\"dates\":\"1939- \",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/29866467\",\"name\":\" Zhang, Zijing\",\"dates\":\"1921-2010\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/67558116\",\"name\":\"Huang, Fan\",\"dates\":\"1950-\",\"notes\":\"Not sure who he is on this tape. 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He begins his speech tallking about the reason why and how Fred Wah and Tish poet became interested in Chinese contemporary poetry; he shares a bit about the particular Canadian poetry context, and what problems he has with reading British poetry.  \\n\\nFred Wah also talks about new ways of writing, long poems, exchange between American language poets and Canadian language poet, and\\nFeminist poetry (French poets and their crucial role).\\n\\nFred, in addition, talks about [Avenger?] poets; He explains about language poet and performance poets. There is also a conversation and a question and answer period happening in Chinese. \",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670557027926019,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:01.298Z","score":5.9116282}]