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Book launched by Alison Broinowski at Ariel Booksellers, Paddington on 26 September 2002.
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Creative Migration : ‘To Emigrate Inwardly’
2021
single work
essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2021;'No one, particularly an intellectual or artist, migrates just for money (1). In my case, I didn’t even entertain thoughts of migration when I left for Australia in mid-April 1991; I went there to merely pursue academic studies in the hope of getting a PhD degree.' (Introduction)
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No-Man’s Land : Migration, Masculinity, and Ouyang Yu’s The Eastern Slope Chronicle
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 29 no. 2 2015; (p. 439-451) 'The Eastern Slope Chronicle is a novel about migration, focusing on Dao Zhuang, a male Chinese migrant who seems unable to belong anywhere. It is also about the protagonist's self-discovery and discovery of his home and host countries. This paper examines the impact of migration on gender norms and how tensions between different gender norms, particularly models for masculinity, play out in the perspective of cultural, ethnic, or national identity, issues surrounding the impart of migration on gender identity remain virtually unexplored.' (439) -
'Looking Back in Anger' : Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and the Commodification of University Space in Ouyang Yu’s The Eastern Slope Chronicle
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities , vol. 4 no. 2 2012; (p. 163-171) 'The proposed paper attempts to investigate the nuanced layers of multiculturalism and ethnicity in Australia through the lens of the Chinese-Australian writer, Ouyang Yu. His novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle, written from the perspective of a student's cooperation with the term 'postcolonial', throws a compulsive doubt on the celebration of multiculturalism. Whereas the novel deals with central 'postcolonial' questions like nationhood, political relation between countries, repatriation, violence, and immigrant identity, its unabridged and cut-and-dried presentation of the corporate packaging of terms like multicultural and postcolonial or the body of the diasporic student as the product of study and university research invites more critical thoughts on university space, the category of international student or the commodification of feelings like love, emotion and soul. In a way, it seeks the irony and economy of 'affect' in a supposedly 'postcolonial' novel.' (Author's abstract)
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Chinese Culture Cures : Ouyang Yu's Representation and Resolution of the Immigrant Syndrome in The Eastern Slope Chronicle
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 179-184) 'Asian Australian literature has brown prosperous since Australia opened its door to Asian immigrants, as evidenced by the emergence of Asian Australian writers like Brian Castro, Lilian Ng, Lau Siew Mei, Beth Yahp, Hsu-ming Teo, and so on. The Chinese diasporic writers from the various parts of Asia tell their hometown stories and share their migrant experience in their host countries. Ouyang Yu, a bilingual writer from mainland China ‘is perhaps the most indecorous writer currently at work today’. (Birns 194) (p179) -
Seeing Double : The Quest for Chineseness in Australia
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
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Fiction
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 February 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of The Eastern Slope Chronicle 2002 single work novel ; Summer Visit : Three Novellas 2002 selected work novella -
Paperbacks
2003
single work
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— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 9 March 2003; (p. 22)
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Being Othered in 'Our' Land
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 172 2003; (p. 94-96)
— Review of Otherland no. 7 2001 periodical issue ; The Eastern Slope Chronicle 2002 single work novel ; Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes 2002 selected work poetry -
Postcolonial, Cross-Cultural, In-Your-Face Grunge
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 172-174)
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Too Big for the Boutique: 'China' and Anglophone Multiculturalism in Australian Literature
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2004; (p. 88-96) Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 274-282) -
Sleep No More : Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia
2005
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essay
— Appears in: Culture, Identity, Commodity : Diasporic Chinese Literature in English 2005; (p. 231-251) -
'Flexible Citizenship' : Strategic Chinese Identities in Asian Australian Literature
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Intercultural Studies , February vol. 27 no. 1-2 2006; (p. 213-227)Focusing on Ouyang Yu's The Eastern Slope Chronicle, this essay explores 'the extent to which the concept of 'Asian Australian' reflects Asian and Australian attitudes towards cultural and political citizenship. It argues that Asian Australian cultural production is not only symptomatic of deep ambivalences surrounding cultural and political citizenship, but that it is also subject to constant re-negotiation with historical and prevailing attitudes about race and culture' (author's abstract).
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Returnee Scholars: Ouyang Yu, the Displaced Poet and the Sea Turtle
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 249-263) -
Seeing Double : The Quest for Chineseness in Australia
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
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