{"id":2824,"date":"2008-02-25T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:42:24","slug":"eugene-yao-1946-2008-a-chinese-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/02\/25\/eugene-yao-1946-2008-a-chinese-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Yao, 1946-2008: A Chinese Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2289773489\/\" title=\"Eugene Yong Ging YAO - 1946-2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/2289773489_3f80cc050e.jpg\" alt=\"Eugene Yong Ging YAO - 1946-2008\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Cross-posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\">Spacing Montreal<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eugene Yao was born in Shanghai in 1946, and came to Canada in 1969 as a student of McGill University in electrical engineering, where he met his wife-to-be, Winnie Ng, a sociology student. He was later president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccnc.ca\/\">Chinese Canadian National Council<\/a>. In recent years, he became known for starting a commuter bicycle shop in Toronto called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucycle.com\/\">The Urbane Cyclist<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/Obituary\/article\/306222\">Toronto Star<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistmagazine.com\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=759&amp;Itemid=143\">Activist Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>From a friend of Yao:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Eugene was the most generous, kind-hearted person you could imagine. He was a forward-thinking man, and decided to leave traditional employment behind. He was married to Winnie Ng, well-known NDPer and immigrant-labour-rights activist in Toronto. They let me stay at his house for a month when I was working in Toronto and refused to let me pay them a cent, loved by all my friends who were clients of Urbane Cyclist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I had just got my bike stolen when I moved in with them and Eugene kindly supplied me with a sturdy old beater for the month! Of course, it ran like a dream&#8230;.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"http:\/\/commeleschinois.ca\/2008\/02\/25\/eugene-yao-1946-2008-a-chinese-activist\/\">article<\/a> was also crossposted to <a href=\"http:\/\/commeleschinois.ca\/\">Comme les Chinois<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Spacing Montreal Eugene Yao was born in Shanghai in 1946, and came to Canada in 1969 as a student of McGill University in electrical engineering, where he met his wife-to-be, Winnie Ng, a sociology student. He was later president of the Chinese Canadian National Council. In recent years, he became known for starting<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/02\/25\/eugene-yao-1946-2008-a-chinese-activist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Eugene Yao, 1946-2008: A Chinese Activist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21758],"tags":[457,3588,8287,2186,2666,26,475,1659,19,341,8295,8294],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-canada","tag-chinese-canadian-national-council","tag-eugene-yao","tag-forward","tag-mcgill-university","tag-people","tag-president","tag-shanghai","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-star","tag-urbane-cyclist","tag-winnie-ng"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eugene Yao, 1946-2008: A Chinese Activist - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/02\/25\/eugene-yao-1946-2008-a-chinese-activist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eugene Yao, 1946-2008: A Chinese Activist - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cross-posted from Spacing Montreal Eugene Yao was born in Shanghai in 1946, and came to Canada in 1969 as a student of McGill University in electrical engineering, where he met his wife-to-be, Winnie Ng, a sociology student. 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