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Andrew Y.M. Kwong Andrew Y.M. Kwong i(A130758 works by)
Born: Established: 1949
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China,
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East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Gender: Male
Heritage: Chinese
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Andrew Y. M. Kwong was born in China in 1949 and was smuggled into Hong Kong in 1962. He studied in Hong Kong and in Sydney and then studied medicine at UNSW. He is a practicing family physician who writes for recreation.

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y separately published work icon One Bright Moon Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2020 18587081 2020 single work autobiography

'From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia

'Andrew Kwong was only eight when he witnessed his first execution. The desperate scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao's new China. Yet he knew if he devoted himself to the Party and its Chairman he would be saved. That's what his teacher told him.

'Months later, it was his own father on trial. This time the sentence was banishment to a re-education camp, not death. Yet it left the family tainted, despised, and with few means of survival during the terrible years of persecution and famine known as the Great Leap Forward. Escape seemed the only solution, and it would be twelve-year-old Andrew who undertook the perilous journey first.

'This is the poignant, resonant story of a young boy's awakening - to survival, education, fulfilment, and eventually to a new life of freedom in Australia.' (Publication summary)

2021 winner National Biography Award Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work
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