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For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne single work   poetry   "circulate this amongst your friends critical of the local culture"
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne
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Notes

  • Author's note: This poem includes phrases borrowed and derived from: L. Kong Meng, Cheok Hong Cheong, Louis Ah Mouy (eds.), The Chinese Question in Australia, 1878–79. Melbourne: FF Bailliere, 1879.

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 65 no. 2 2020 20864703 2020 periodical issue 'In preparation for our last issue, I felt that the small gesture of reaching out through a letter to you all might be a fitting acknowledgement of the extreme circumstances in which we found ourselves. Naively, I did not expect that come November we would find ourselves still facing the pandemic as a crisis. We have been lucky here in Perth, to see life return to something resembling ‘normal’. But I’m conscious that elsewhere, both in Australia and overseas, others have not been so fortunate.' (Editorial introduction) 2020 pg. 14-15
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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