Xiaoping Li

Today, The Globe and Mail published an article titled, “Canada’s too slow boat to China”.  The author pointed out several factors that have likely contributed to this slow movement.  I feel that one important factor is missing.  Deep down, Canadians probably have not given China and Chinese people serious respect. Several years ago, the MBA director [...]

The following articles are available for first-time publishing or re-publishing.  Please Write To Me to let me know which article you would like to use.  I will revise it to suit your publishing needs.  Thanks. 1. Fun With Frugality  — (saving money and saving the environment) — initially published in The Globe And Mail 2. From the Tibetan protests to the “Tiananmen Massacre” — [...]

I remember the first time I saw nudist men in the gay pride parade in Toronto years ago, I felt uncomfortable.  The mainstream media was quite averse to them and the local gay media even argued that they shouldn’t be allowed in the next parade so that a cleaner and more representable image of the LGBT [...]

1. Articles Published in Newspaper and Magazines     Room-Housing the Working Poor in Scarborough (2008)     Fun With Frugality (2007)     Growing Up Gay In China (2003)     Livin’ La Polo Homo (2001)     Addicted to Adventure (2000)     My Trip To Banff (1991)     Teaching Tolerance in English Classes (1990)   2. Articles Published on Web Sites  From the “Lhasa [...]

I approached my artist friend Aries Cheung with the idea of designing a postcard with a pair of hands setting off a dove with the title “Peace is in your hands” to help raise the awareness in our society that each of us has the right and responsibility to participate in and contribute to world [...]

“Men are needed to go to the wildness with me, this winter, to build an igloo or quinzee and sleep in it overnight.  Cold. Hard work. Danger.  These are the only promised rewards.”  I placed this ad in Manline.com on November 1, 2002, hoping to find a young, tough, adventurous mate.   A few people responded [...]

This experience is a birthday gift from my mother. It was in the fall of 1999. I spent the first half day on ground learning all the techniques needed for freefall diving.  The most important parts are that I need to spread my limbs to keep a flying position, to monitor the altimeter reading on my [...]

Seattle Otters had only five water polo players – some were straight – attending the IGLA 2001 tournament in Toronto.  Lisa and I, two neophytes in Toronto, joined them.  Seven players.  No substitute.  Lisa and I could barely float after the first day of the tournament.  The second day, our competing teams played us six-on-six, so [...]

That day, it was cloudy, cool, and still.  I was paddling my canoe through a bog area, moving cautiously and slowly towards Big Trout Lake.  Behind me was another canoe paddled by two Americans whom I had met a couple of times on my canoeing and portaging route.  The water was shallow, just deep enough [...]

1. Algonquin, My Dear Algonquin 2. Mama (Chinese) 3. Alien, Take Me 4. Baba, Please Come Back (Chinese) 5. Fear, Fear, Fear 6. A Lonely Hear 7. Sister 8. That Beautiful River Xiang (Chinese) 9. Lost 10. Music 11. Love Your Fellow Man 12. Love Knows No Boundaries (Chinese) 13. Mama, Let Me Realize Your Dreams (Chinese) [...]