Hong Kong-born actress and filmmaker Jo Chim talks about hiding her Chinese side from school friends, being mean in Mean Girls and why she got invited to Nasa My father worked for China Dyeing Works in Hong Kong. I was just a few months old when he was posted to Ghana in 1969 and I moved there with my parents. When my mother got pregnant with my brother, she came back to Hong Kong to give birth and returned to Africa with him.
My memories of the five years in Ghana are from the Super 8mm films my father shot – lots of jungles, waterfalls and lush landscapes. In the 1970s, we emigrated to Vancouver, Canada. In those days, it was a beachcomber town, very small.
Dad was a chemical engineer and a smart guy, but he found it hard to get work and was painting suspension bridges. So we moved to Toronto so he could start his own knitting factory. Burgers and fries {"@context":"https://schema.
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Her memories of the five years in Ghana are from the Super 8mm films her father shot. Photo: Jo Chim Growing up in suburban white Canada, I didn’t want to stand out, so I hid the fact that I was Chinese, even though it’s very apparent I am Ch.