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Cheuk Kwan | He was born in Hong Kong and grew
up in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. 
After earning his master's degree in systems
engineering in the United States, he immigrated to Canada in 1976
where he embarked upon a successful career in information technology.
His international upbringing
gave the multilingual Mr. Kwan - he speaks English, Japanese,
French and several Chinese dialects - an early start in world
travel and opportunities to meet people from several countries.
His career later brought him to the United States, Saudi Arabia,
and back to Japan and Hong Kong.
Back home in Canada, the community
activist founded The Asianadian, a magazine dedicated to the promotion
of Asian Canadian arts, culture and politics, in 1978. The following
year, he helped lead a nation-wide fight for equality for Chinese
Canadians.
Mr. Kwan took a film workshop
at New York University in 1998 before establishing his own production
company, Tissa Films. His first three films, 'Song of the Exile',
'On the Islands', and 'Three Continents', are based on his Chinese
Restaurants series and bring together his personal experiences,
love of travel and appreciation of Chinese culture worldwide.
Links for Cheuk Kwan
Links to essays by Canadians
Tony Chan and June Callwood about Cheuk Kwan's Chinese Restaurants
series
'Spicy Noodles' by Tony Chan
http://chineserestaurants.tv/essays/es_tonychan.html
'Song of the Exile' by June
Callwood
http://chineserestaurants.tv/essays/es_junecallwood.html
Watch clips from episodes from
the 'Chinese Restaurants' series - Cheuk Kwan circles the globe
from Peru to Madagascar to Turkey to Norway
http://chineserestaurants.tv/episodes/episodes.html
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