AustLit

'Lily’s grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. She doesn’t care that times have changed and that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. She sees that Lily’s caught between worlds, and wants her to enter the Chinese community beauty pageant, the highly competitive Miss Peony. She won’t take no for an answer.

'And to makes matters worse, she’s a ghost.'

Source: Belvoir Street Theatre.

'Lucy Linh Lam lives in a dilapidated suburb among families like her own: poor, hardworking immigrants who dream of a better life for their children. When she wins a scholarship to a prestigious private school, Lucy struggles to form a new identity without compromising the values she holds closest to her heart.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approvals.

Comedy-drama about two twenty-something best friends who reinvent themselves after experiencing chronic illness.

'Set on the Sunshine Coast this hilarious play answers what it means to be an Asian woman living in Australia.

'For Pearl, a Chinese migrant operating a restaurant, it means sacrifice and struggling to connect with her very westernised children.

'For Zoe, the eldest child, it means approaching a crossroads in her life where she’s forced to choose between a career and a family.

'For Mei, the youngest child, it means being bullied at school and grappling with the desire to assimilate versus cultivating a unique identity.

'Two sisters at odds with each other and a mother harboring a secret that threatens to tear her family apart, Australian domesticity like you’ve never seen it before.'

(Production summary)

'Benjamin Law and Michelle Law, the long-suffering children of an Asian Mother, bring you the hilarious Sh*t Asian Mothers Say, featuring the wisdom of Asian Mothers the world over, from “Eat every grain of rice, otherwise that’s how many pimples your future spouse will have” to “She’s just jealous – and racist”. The book also includes quizzes (“Have You Failed Your Asian Mother?”), an interpretation guide to “What your Asian Mother is really saying”, Ten Asian Mother Commandments (Thou shalt not sleepover) and an Asian Mothers’ Guide to Beauty (bad perms, colour, eyelids). With illustrations by Oslo Davis that bring the disapproving Asian Mother to life, this is the perfect gift for the Asian Mother in your life – or perhaps her children.' (Publication summary)