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  • Author:agent Yu Ouyang http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/ouyang-yu
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Kingsbury, Ivanhoe - Heidelberg area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Otherland , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Motherland, Otherland: Small Issues, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism
Ouyang Yu pleads 'As writers, can we [Chinese] cease to be exotic products to be gazed at and can we cease to create exotic products for the white reading market?'
 (p. 140-151)
Haigui : A Key Word for 2003, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. 152-160)
A Tree That Hit the Granite Ceiling, Yu Ouyang , single work essay

Ouyang Yu discusses the cases of Chinese writers who have found no outlet for their creativity in Australia and who have taken on work purely for monetary satisfaction. He describes himself as 'an economic dissident' who has resisted 'the temptations of the market by refusing to participate in it and to follow other Chinese intellectuals who have given up on the artistic and ideological pursuits they once regarded as valuable.'

Following the impact of Pauline Hanson's anti-Asian views, Ouyang Yu also ponders whether 'certain white Australian intellectuals [have] stepped in, keeping their Australian culture from being "swamped" by Asians'.

(p. 161-172)
Fragments from a Translator's Note Fragments from a Translator's Note : On 'The Ancestor Game', Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. 174-179)
Note: With title: Fragments from a Translator's Note
Poems as Illegal Immigrants : an Introduction, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism
Introducing this selection of Chinese poetry, Ouyang Yu speaks of the diversity and vitality of modern Chinese writing. He describes this selection as poems which defy pigeon-holing, which are characteristically anti-Western, sexy and political, although not about Western-style democracy; poems which open up a new world for us to see. Responding to something in himself which refuses to be colonized by the West, epitomized by the English language, he smuggles them in, like unwanted illegal immigrants, and 'give[s] back what has been rejected, in your face'.
 (p. 180-183)
Translating Myself, Re-Creating Myself Translating Myelf, Re-Creating Myself: A Critical Enquiry into the Process of Self-Translation, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism
Ouyang Yu reflects on the process of self-translating, that is translating his own work from one language to another, both to and from English and Chinese.
 (p. 193-208)
Note: With some minor cuts from the original published version. (Five Bells)
No Longer Silent: Recent Mainland Chinese Writing on Australia, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. 210-217)
The Invisible Australian: Representations of the Australian in Australian-Chinese Writings up to 1994 Land of Strangers, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. 218-224)
Note: With title: The Invisible Australian: Representations of the Australian in Australian-Chinese Writings up to 1994
A Clash of Cultures: Recent Representations of Australians in Mainland Chinese Fiction, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. 225-232)
Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1988-1994 The Ultimate Other : Recent Representations of Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1988-1994, Yu Ouyang , single work criticism (p. 233-238)
Note: With title: Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1988-1994
Interview: Ouyang Yu, D. J. Huppatz (interviewer), single work interview (p. 240-247)
Returnee Scholars: Ouyang Yu, the Displaced Poet and the Sea Turtle, Kam Louie , single work criticism (p. 249-263)
[Review] Moon Over Melbourne : Poems, Helene Brophy , single work review
— Review of Moon Over Melbourne : Poems Yu Ouyang , 1995 selected work poetry ; (p. 264-265)
[Review] Songs of the Last Chinese Poet, Rodney Noonan , single work review
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry ; (p. 266-267)
[Review] Otherland, Smith Sam , single work review
— Review of Otherland no. 6 June 2000 periodical issue ; (p. 268-269)
[Review] Otherland, TT. O , single work review
— Review of Otherland no. 8 2002 periodical issue ; (p. 270-273)
Too Big for the Boutique: 'China' and Anglophone Multiculturalism in Australian Literature, Nicholas Birns , single work criticism (p. 274-282)
[Review] Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes, Alan Hardy , single work review
— Review of Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes Yu Ouyang , 2002 selected work poetry ; (p. 283-285)
Images and Contradictions, Gig Ryan , single work review
— Review of Footnotes of a Hammock Joanne Burns , 2004 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Yu Ouyang , 2004 selected work poetry ; (p. 286-287)
Note: This source only contains that part of the review concerning Ouyang Yu.
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