Paul Yee was featured at the Vancouver Writers and Readers Festival on Tuesday and Wednesday.  He will be sticking around town, as he will be launching his new book Chinatowns, published by Lorimer, at the Vancouver Museum on Oct 25th.  Janice Wong's book Chow will also be featured.

Paul's new book is a pictorial history of Chinatowns across Canada.  Paul's first illustrated history book was Saltwater City: an Illustrated History of Vancouver's Chinatown.  This book won the inaugural Vancouver City Book Award, and will be revised next spring by Douglas McIntyre.

I first met Paul in 1986, when he chaired the Saltwater City exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Centre.  This was a wonderful celebration of 100 years of Vancouver chinese history for Vancouver's Centennial.  I will look for some old pictures of Paul from the project.