VANCOUVER —I met Wayson Choy when I was 20. She not only taught The Jade Peony in classrooms, in between units on Shakespeare and formal poetry, but spoke frequently of his kindness and warmth. ( Picasa / Submitted ) ‘Your stories will matter,’ Wayson Choy wrote in Yilin Wang’s copy of The Jade Peony when she met him in 2012. “Your stories will matter,” he wrote in my copy of The Jade Peony when he signed it. Read more: Wayson Choy, bestselling author of The Jade Peony, dies at 80 Yilin Wang is a writer, editor, and translator who has lived in China, the U.S., Scotland, and Canada.

Source: thestar April 29, 2019 23:37 UTC