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y separately published work icon Bitter Peaches and Plums : Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia selected work   novella  
Alternative title: Ku tao li
Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Bitter Peaches and Plums : Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Lyndall Whitecross and Lü Yanrong
  • Translated and introduced by J. Bruce Jacobs and Ouyang Yu.
  • Contains translated versions of two novellas that were originally published in Chinese: 'My Fortune in Australia' by Liu Guande and 'Australia - Beautiful Lies' by Huangfu Jun.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Clayton, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Monash University. Asia Institute , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, J. Bruce Jacobs , Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. i-x)
My Fortune in Australia Wo de caifu zai Aozhou, Guande Liu , J. Bruce Jacobs (translator) Yu Ouyang (translator) single work novella
A fictionalised autobiographical account of the writer's experience in Australia, exploring the meaning of being Chinese in a global context.
 (p. 1-171)
Australia - Beautiful Lies Aozhou-meili de huangyan, Jun Huangfu , J. Bruce Jacobs (translator) Yu Ouyang (translator) single work novella (p. 173-256)
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'Drawing upon novels, comic strips, ASIO dossiers, government documents, public polls, travelogues and politicians' pronouncements, Ways of Seeing China seeks to understand why Australia's China has developed from the epitome of all things hateful, barbaric and undemocratic into something captivating, admirable, irresistible, even if still undemocratic - and back again' (back cover blurb).
Exporting Australian Educational Services to China Timothy Kendall , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management , March vol. 26 no. 1 2004; (p. 23-33) This article 'examines the deregulation of the overseas student sector that took place in Australia during the mid-1980s'.
Floating Lives : Cultural Citizenship and the Limits of Diaspora Wenche Ommundsen , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 101-121) 'Focusing on the diversity of experience evoked by notions of cultural belonging ... [this essay] argues against the prevalent tendency within diaspora studies to engage in a rhetoric of cultural essentialism. The literatures of diaspora deserve to be read as documents of unique and complex cultural experiences rather than mere illustrations of archetypes.' (p.101)
Altered Images Neil James , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , April vol. 2 no. 3 1997; (p. 11-12,30)
— Review of Bitter Peaches and Plums : Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia Guande Liu , Jun Huangfu , 1995 selected work novella ; Moon Over Melbourne : Poems Yu Ouyang , 1995 selected work poetry ; Footprints on Paper : An Anthology of Australian Writing in English and Chinese 1996 anthology poetry short story
Chinese Novellas Jo-Ann Stubbings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 180 1996; (p. 33-34)
— Review of Bitter Peaches and Plums : Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia Guande Liu , Jun Huangfu , 1995 selected work novella
Chinese Novellas Jo-Ann Stubbings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 180 1996; (p. 33-34)
— Review of Bitter Peaches and Plums : Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia Guande Liu , Jun Huangfu , 1995 selected work novella
Altered Images Neil James , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , April vol. 2 no. 3 1997; (p. 11-12,30)
— Review of Bitter Peaches and Plums : Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia Guande Liu , Jun Huangfu , 1995 selected work novella ; Moon Over Melbourne : Poems Yu Ouyang , 1995 selected work poetry ; Footprints on Paper : An Anthology of Australian Writing in English and Chinese 1996 anthology poetry short story
Floating Lives : Cultural Citizenship and the Limits of Diaspora Wenche Ommundsen , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 101-121) 'Focusing on the diversity of experience evoked by notions of cultural belonging ... [this essay] argues against the prevalent tendency within diaspora studies to engage in a rhetoric of cultural essentialism. The literatures of diaspora deserve to be read as documents of unique and complex cultural experiences rather than mere illustrations of archetypes.' (p.101)
Exporting Australian Educational Services to China Timothy Kendall , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management , March vol. 26 no. 1 2004; (p. 23-33) This article 'examines the deregulation of the overseas student sector that took place in Australia during the mid-1980s'.
y separately published work icon Ways of Seeing China : From Yellow Peril to Shangrila Timothy Kendall , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2005 Z1255794 2005 single work criticism

'Drawing upon novels, comic strips, ASIO dossiers, government documents, public polls, travelogues and politicians' pronouncements, Ways of Seeing China seeks to understand why Australia's China has developed from the epitome of all things hateful, barbaric and undemocratic into something captivating, admirable, irresistible, even if still undemocratic - and back again' (back cover blurb).
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