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Chu, Garrick
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Chu, Garrick Gat
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1950-1979
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Garrick Chu was born in Vancouver, BC, on July 15, 1950. Among a generation of community organizers in and around the city’s Chinatown, he was active as a writer, film producer and director.
Garrick was an editor of Inalienable Rice: A Chinese and Japanese Canadian Anthology, one of the first anthologies of Asian Canadian poetry and fiction. With Sean Gunn and Gordon Mark, he produced and edited Gum Shan Po, a Chinese Canadian tabloid-style newspaper.
Garrick died on December 30, 1979 in Vancouver.
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.
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Garrick Chu subfonds. University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections. https://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/chu-garrick