Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World

Robert Amos is a full-time artist who began painting professionally in 1980; a five-part panorama of Chinatown’s Fisgard Street was the centrepiece of his first exhibition. He is the author of Artists in Their Studios: Where Art is Born (TouchWood Editions). Since 1986, Robert has been the art writer for the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper and his drawings of Victoria’s Chinatown have appeared on almost every issue of the Victoria Chinatown Newsletter. Robert lives in Victoria, BC. Please visit www.robertamos.com.

Kileasa Wong was born Wu Chewan in Hong Kong, the daughter of a family from Chaozhou in the northeast corner of Guangdong Province. She moved to Canada with her husband in 1974 and is now the secretary of Victoria’s Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the editor of the Victoria Chinatown Newsletter. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a master’s degree in education from the University of Victoria, and is the foremost teacher of traditional Chinese painting in Victoria. She is also the principal of the Chinese Public School on Fisgard Street. Kileasa lives in Victoria, BC.