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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Swallowing Clouds
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  • Dedication: For Syn, Anthony, Li-Yu.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1997 .
      Extent: xii, 306 p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Portrait of the author on cover.
      ISBN: 0140269932
    • Hopewell, New Jersey,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Ecco Press ,       1999 .
      Extent: 306p.
      ISBN: 0880016442
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From ‘Unreliable Man’ to ‘True Lover’ : Shifting Images of Chinese Men in Writing by Chinese Australian Women Writers Zhong Huang , Wenche Ommundsen , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 167-182) 'In 1994, Chinese writer Shi Guoying made the following assertion in a Sydney Chinese-language magazine: ‘Western men who are excellent love-makers are everywhere. Out of every ten Western men, at least eight are terrific and only two are average. Out of every ten Chinese men, two are average and eight are pathetic’ (‘Women’ 146–147). Employing a combined racial and sexual discourse, she denounces her male compatriots as physically inferior as well as temperamentally unsuited to fulfil a woman’s needs. Not surprisingly, her article sparked a fierce debate in the Chinese-language press, many accusing her of perpetuating Orientalist stereotypes of Chinese inferiority (see Zhong ‘Masks’). However, Shi persisted in her attack. In her novella ‘Mistaken Love’ (错爱), first published in 1999, she illustrates her assertion through the portrayal of a Frenchman who is sexually more competent and more caring than his Chinese counterparts.' (Introduction)
Reincarnation: The Orientalist Stereotypes Amelberga Astuti , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 1 2014; 'In her third novel The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), Amy Tan uses the notion of reincarnation, which shows her exploitation of the exotic East that reaffirms the stereotypes of Orientalism. The question that has to be raised is whether Tan’s use of the concept of reincarnation to reinforce Orientalist stereotypes is also to be found in those Asian-Australian novels that use the concept of reincarnation in their representations of Australia’s multiethnic society. This paper examines how the Asian-Australian writers use the concept of reincarnation to explore the individuals’ dislocated experiences in relation to their search of identity. I explore the symbolic narratives of reincarnation in two novels by Asian-Australian women writers: Dewi Anggraeni’s second novel Parallel Forces (1988) and Lillian Ng’s second novel Swallowing Clouds (1997). Each novel deals with a woman protagonist who is the reincarnation of a woman who lived centuries ago. Employing multi-settings of the novels in Asia and Australia, the writers have established connections between Western and Eastern cultures in an Orientalism context. In this paper, I suggest that these Asian-Australian women writers attempt to challenge Orientalist stereotypes through the theme of reincarnation in different ways.' (Publication abstract)
Exotic Pleasures Xavier Pons , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 293-315)
Writing Chinese Diaspora : After the 'White Australia Policy' Deborah L. Madsen , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 263-270) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 158-172) An overview of Chinese-Australian writing.
Seeing Double : The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Wenche Ommundsen , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory , no. 16 2008; (p. 90-109) 'Chinese and other Asians, this essay argues, performed a structural function in the developing national consciousness of Australia as the racial/cultural Other against which the national self was defined and towards which its fears and desires could be projected. Today, Chinese Australian writers use the image of the double to explore their own position in the national psyche. To what extent, they ask, is it possible to imagine a merging of Asian and Australian, observer and observed, representation and self-construction? Is the Chinese-antipodean identity always a site of conflict and contradiction or can it be lived as a happier kind of hybridity?' -- Author's abstract
Untitled 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Asia Society AustralAsia Centre Newsletter , Winter 2000; (p. 6)
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After the Heat Terri-Ann White , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 197 1997-1998; (p. 48-49)
— Review of Swallowing Clouds Lillian Ng , 1997 single work novel
Explicit Sex Scenes Cath Kenneally , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 February 1998; (p. 8)
— Review of Swallowing Clouds Lillian Ng , 1997 single work novel ; Nightpictures Rod Jones , 1997 single work novel
Untitled Beatriz Copello , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Newswrite : The Newsletter of the New South Wales Writers' Centre , April no. 70 1998; (p. 7,15)
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Cloud is Cloud, or is It? Lisbet De Castro Lopo , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 58 no. 3 1998; (p. 255-261)
— Review of Swallowing Clouds Lillian Ng , 1997 single work novel ; The Service of Clouds Delia Falconer , 1997 single work novel
Transforming Trauma : Post Tiananmen Narratives and the Chinese Intellectual Diaspora Kay Schaffer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 1 : Polarities of Home and Away, Encounters and Diasporas, in Post-Colonial Literatures 2003; (p. 145-157) The articles discusses the writings that have emerged in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989, written in part by Chinese dissident exiles in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and England. A majority of the stories, mainly written by women, take a fictional form, and transform the events not through political critique but rather through 'a new, feminised politics of the body' (146).
Food, Race and the Power of Recuperative Identity Politics within Asian Australian Women's Fiction Robyn Morris , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 32 no. 4 2008; (p. 499-508) 'This article considers the link between consumption, cuisine and agency in fiction by Asian Australian writers, Hsu-Ming Teo, Simone Lazaroo and Lillian Ng. It argues that the issue of whether these writers employ an oppositional poetics during the process of textualising or fictionalisng their experience and reactions to racialised and gendered practices can be addressed through an evaluation of their deployment of the food metaphor. In other words, do these writers challenge the assumption of a monolithic national identity in which Australian multiculturalism is equated with eating or tasting but disavowing the other?' (499)
Writing Chinese Diaspora : After the 'White Australia Policy' Deborah L. Madsen , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 263-270) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 158-172) An overview of Chinese-Australian writing.
Seeing Double : The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Wenche Ommundsen , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory , no. 16 2008; (p. 90-109) 'Chinese and other Asians, this essay argues, performed a structural function in the developing national consciousness of Australia as the racial/cultural Other against which the national self was defined and towards which its fears and desires could be projected. Today, Chinese Australian writers use the image of the double to explore their own position in the national psyche. To what extent, they ask, is it possible to imagine a merging of Asian and Australian, observer and observed, representation and self-construction? Is the Chinese-antipodean identity always a site of conflict and contradiction or can it be lived as a happier kind of hybridity?' -- Author's abstract
Exotic Pleasures Xavier Pons , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing 2009; (p. 293-315)
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    China,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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  • 1990s
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