Mah James

Mah James

Chinese Canadian WW2 Soldiers

This is a photograph of Mah James, a soldier of Chinese-descent in World War 2 who fought on the side of Canada, taken in 1942 by Yucho Chow. Photos like these are important parts of humanising the statistical costs of war, looking beyond the numbers onto a 21 year old Chinese Canadian who decided (whether as a necessity for work, a patriotic duty for Canada and Europe or China and East Asia, or out of a will to earn the respect of Chinese Canadians in Canadian society) to risk his life overseas, when his country denied him even the basic right to vote.

Yucho Chow

The image is from the following entry:

Chow, Yucho. “Mah James.” 1942. Photograph. Vancouver, BC. City of Vancouver Archives, 2021. https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/mah-james.

City of Vancouver Archives

1942

Likely Public Domain (unless the family of the donated item still requires permission)

JPG file

English

Still Image