希望之旅

余全毅

1967年出生于溫哥華的余全毅是第四代加國華裔。余全毅8歲時移居溫島，在當地以優異成績高中畢業考入UBC後，他選了歷史系，擬畢業後考入東岸著名法律學院當律師。但大學教授建議他先進研究院，修畢碩士再做律師也不遲。余全毅從此投入歷史研究，獲取獎學金到普林斯頓大學進修。他二十七歲獲得博士學位，在大學任教職工作的他，要為加國早期華人史翻案。余全毅曾獲加拿大聯邦政府的社區教育基金撥款九十萬加元，指導歴史系研究生展開一個大型研究計劃，肩負起為加國華人“正史”的重任。

Professor Henry Yu, 余全毅, was born in Vancouver, B.C., and grew up in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. He received his BA in Honours History from UBC and an MA and PhD in History from Princeton University. After teaching at UCLA for a decade, Yu returned to UBC as an Associate Professor of History to help build programs focused on trans-Pacific Canada.
Yu himself is both a second and fourth generation Canadian. His parents were first generation immigrants from China, joining a grandfather who had spent almost his entire life in Canada. His great-grandfather was also an early Chinese pioneer in British Columbia, part of a larger networks of migrants who left Zhongshan county in Guangdong province in South China and settled around the Pacific in places such as Australia, New Zealand, Hawai’i, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Canada. Prof. Yu’s book, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2001) won the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize as the Most Distinguished Book of 2001, and he is currently working on a book entitled How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Finding Ourselves in History. Currently, he is the Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research on Chinese Canadians (INSTRCC) and the Principal of St. John’s College at UBC, as well as a Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC).