Teacher Guide

The Jade Peony Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

In addition to The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy also wrote the novel All That Matters (2004) and two memoirs: Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (1999) and Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying (2009).

For books with similar a setting and themes, please see: Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee; The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong; Obasan by Joy Kogawa; The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart; A Good House by Bonnie Burnard; and The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

To learn more about Chinese Canadian History, see: Blossoms in the Gold Mountains by Lily Chow; Colonial Proximities by Renisa Mawani; Great...

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