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'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)

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 65 no. 2 2020 20864703 2020 periodical issue 'In preparation for our last issue, I felt that the small gesture of reaching out through a letter to you all might be a fitting acknowledgement of the extreme circumstances in which we found ourselves. Naively, I did not expect that come November we would find ourselves still facing the pandemic as a crisis. We have been lucky here in Perth, to see life return to something resembling ‘normal’. But I’m conscious that elsewhere, both in Australia and overseas, others have not been so fortunate.' (Editorial introduction) 2020 pg. 167-182
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