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The School Room is a education podcast hosted by Chinese Canadian Museum. It has 26 episodes, with the latest published February 2026.

Recorded inside the historic school room in the Wing Sang Building, The School Room shares stories connected to the Chinese Canadian Museum’s exhibitions and programming. Join host Dr. Melissa Karmen Lee, CEO of the Chinese Canadian Museum, and a special guest each month as they go in-depth on Chinese Canadian experiences.

education ·en ·26 episodes

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1

Wing Noodles: Montréal Chinese Legacies

2

A Lookback on The School Room: Stories That Shaped Us

3

Ann Hui | Timeless Cinema: Capturing a New Age of Hong Kong

4

Rainbow Chan | Ancestral Songs: Revitalizing Weitou Culture

5

Ming Wong | Speculative Futures: Cantopop and Transnational Chinese Identity

6

Chih-Chien Wang | Archival Letters for Hope

7

Howie Tsui | Stones, Bones, and Diasporic Longing

8

Stella Zheng | Illustrating Dr. Wally’s World

9

Janet Wang | Making Art in Chinatown About Chinatown

10

Morris Lum | Behind the Scenes: The Photography of C.B. Wand

11

Karen Tam | “Made in China”: The Chinatown Curio Shop

12

Marjorie Young | Chinatown Connections: Strathcona and Beyond

13

Dianne Leong Man | Connected Across Oceans: The South African Chinese Diaspora

14

Janet Bradley Worthington | Family Separation: The Story of Mah Tin Yick and the Oriental Home and School

15

Lillian Dyck | Stubborn Advocacy: Growing up Chinese-Indigenous

16

Lori Fung | Olympic History: The First Chinese Canadian Gold Medalist

17

Chun Hon Chan: The First Chinese Canadian Olympian

18

Shelley Niro | Cafe Daughter: A Story of Chinese-Cree Identity

19

Charlayne Thornton-Joe | Victoria Chinatown: Creating Community with Community

20

Gordon Jin | Another Chinese Head Tax? The 1906 Newfoundland Chinese Immigration Act

21

Arlene Chan | Generational Activism: Documenting Chinese Canadian Belonging

22

William Ping | The Newfoundland Paper Trail: Tracing Heritage Through Food and Writing

23

Julie Eng | Magical Legacies: The Life of Tony Eng

24

Mel Yip | Before it was a Museum: Stories from the Wing Sang Building

25

Rick Wong | War Tales: Force 136 and a Clandestine Love Story

26

Catherine Clement | The Paper Trail: A Story of Chinese Exclusion

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