<div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">May 11, 2021</span></b>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Royal BC Museum Curator of History Appointed to
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">the <a name="m_3202770537682628230__Hlk71287579">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">VICTORIA, BC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">—Today, Dr. Tzu-I Chung, Royal BC Museum Curator of History,
was appointed to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board (CCPERB) on the recommendation of the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">An independent, quasi-judicial, expert-led administrative tribunal, CCPERB helps to ensure Canada's cultural property is protected, preserved,
and accessible. CCPERB provides accountability and support to the institutions and individuals who create, acquire, and engage in the exchange of cultural property.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">CCPERB’s oversight helps build and maintain Canada’s artistic, historic and scientific heritage.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Dr. Chung is a cultural and social historian, specializing in the study of transnational migration within the context of historical, cultural
and economic interactions between North America and Asia-Pacific. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Since joining the Royal BC Museum in 2011, Dr. Chung’s curatorial research has focused on working closely with BC’s diverse communities
on their history, cultural heritage and global connections. She has led, facilitated and participated in significant community heritage projects with diverse community leaders, activists, historians, artists, educators and others.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">The result of this collaboration is a host of award-winning community partnership initiatives, like the </span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/about/explore/centre-arrivals/chinese-canadian-history-british-columbia" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Chinese
Canadian Legacy Project</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">, </span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/about/explore/centre-arrivals/punjabi-intercultural-history-project" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Punjabi
Canadian Legacy Project</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif"> and the
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/research/research-project-profiles/centre-arrivals-creating-culturally-democratic-museum" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Centre of Arrivals Project</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">“This moment in time, more than any other in memory, is critical in determining how we will move forward as a country,” says Dr. Brandt
Louie, the President and CEO of H.Y. Louie Co. Limited, and a Chinese Canadian community leader. “It is important that BC’s diverse community experiences are represented on the national stage.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">“Dr. Chung’s appointment to this federal board is a worthy recognition of her expertise of BC’s minority community heritage, which is key
to our understanding of Canadian national history and culture,” says Dr. Satwinder Bains, the Director of the South Asian Canadian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, a prominent community leader and a long-term institutional partner.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Dr. Chung received her PhD from the University of Arizona, where she studied political economy, critical race theories, representation
in the arts, media and culture, and comparative cultural and social history.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">For more information about Dr. Chung, visit
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For more information about CCPERB, visit </span><a href="https://ccperb-cceebc.gc.ca/en/index-en.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">ccperb-cceebc.gc.ca/en/index-en.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light",sans-serif">About the Royal BC Museum:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion
and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations), we
are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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