It’s been a long, confusing, exhausting federal election season. We’re all tired. But put aside your worries, fellow citizens; it’s time for the invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election.  If you’ve read my articles on the 2017 BC provincial election or the 2018 Vancouver municipal election, you’ll know I’m fascinated by the […]

Last year I wrote an offhand blog post about the phenomenon of non-Chinese political candidates in the BC provincial election inventing their own Chinese names. It was fun, and involved crowd-sourcing photos of election signs from around the Lower Mainland through friends on social media. And, well, it sort of blew up and got a lot […]

Let me take you on a journey into the odd but endearing world of invented Chinese names for non-Chinese politicians. With parliament hung, recounts in progress, and no clear resolution in the BC election likely for weeks, what else are you going to do? Here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, with nearly half […]