Congratulations to Bowen Zhang who recently won the Jack Webster award for Best Reporting- Chinese Language for his piece “Heroes of Chinatown,” which aired on OMNI news! “Heroes of Chinatown” is about the soccer teams of the 1930’s and 40’s in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Bowen came to the Chung Collection and did some of the filming in the Chung Collection exhibition, and featured a number of Chung Collection photographs in the documentary piece. We have a copy of the DVD of the piece in both English and Mandarin for use by researchers at Rare Books and Special Collections.
To see photographs of the soccer teams in the Chung Collection, you can search for photos and the keywords “football” or “soccer.”