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'Our special China Transnational issue of Mascara found inspiration after last year’s conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in Melbourne, ‘Looking In, Looking Out: China and Australia’, a colloquy that was enriched by the presence of the esteemed translator, Li Yao, as well as Chinese post-graduate students. It was apparent, however, that Australian Studies in China is often framed from the perspective of industry, institutions and dual nationalisms. This opened up a space that felt necessary for creative contributions from the Chinese diaspora, from the voices of experimentalism, political struggle, human rights activism; and from the border homelands as China maps out new geostrategic objectives.' (Michelle Cahill and Nicholas Jose : Editorial introduction)
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Only literary material by Australian authors/poetry translators individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Poetry by Mary Jean Chan, Xia Fang, Cyril Wong, Jee Leong Koh and Timothy Yu.
Dorothy Tse translated by Natascha Bruce
Little Red Book by May Ngo
Motive by HC Hsu
Chinese Science Fiction Beyond Politics — An Interview with Hao Jingfang, Author of Folding Beijing Translated by Emily Yu Zong
Debbie Lim translates Luo Lingyuan
Ravi Shankar reviews Empty Chairs by Liu Xia
Qiu Miaojin: The Bittersweet by Nicholas Jose
Christine Sun reviews The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
Paul Giffard-Foret reviews Middle of the Night by HC Hsu
On Exile-Inner and Outer: A Tibetan Odyssey; Martin Kovan reviews Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
A.J. Carruthers reviews Experimental Chinese Literature by Tong King Lee
Peter Gibson reviews Encounters with Asian Decolonisation by David Fettling
Jenevieve Chang reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
Martin Kovan reviews Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds: Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar
Contents
- The Blind Boy of Hamelni"It’s been quiet since you left, but sometimes", single work poetry
- What It Means to Sleepi"Every night this little death into which", single work poetry
- Cultural Amnesiai"Rapid fire intonation, wishes build to an incessant knock.", single work poetry
- The Riveri"For tepid colas fizzled flat", single work poetry
- The Mission : by Miss W, Fourth Generation Chinese New Zealanderi"each day it began with the morning poo", single work poetry
- As Pretty as Miss Hong Kongi"in summer my mother stomped around the house", single work poetry
- Rooftop Chickeni"My grandma said in the fiction of flying", single work poetry
- Hard to Thinki"Sweaty hair stuck on his forehead", single work poetry
- The Greetingi"a labourer met a merchant and now sense lives in a", single work poetry
- 산i"when a sound wells from belly to tongue", single work poetry
- Tự Doi"I caught sight of you in District 1, bold, purple, by", single work
- The Ferret Population of Shanghai : Some Anecdotal Evidencei"my friend says ferrets", single work poetry
- Mutianyu in Junei"Clouds in the west", single work poetry
- Forbidden City?i"Morning is shuttered and we are like dormant fireflies", single work poetry
- Boat A Three-Part Sonata, sequence poetry
- Agitatoi"boat turning tapping tap foot step few thing way that in a row going", single work poetry
- Calandoi"swallow nest and pigeon hero rainbow in the bee-eater beak a little bee", single work poetry
- Appassionatoi"going on land where do you smile going on land after a while", single work poetry
- EvFLi"vain, jadeworsted, giantesque-bedizzened Sophisticated sponge 1", single work poetry
- Washing Day, single work short story
