AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
The author has descibed this numbered sequence of 97 untitled poems as 'a metaphysical and postmodern attempt to probe into issues of colonization and self-colonization, change of identities in a new country as a bilingual writer, death as a way of imagination and exorcization, and dark Chinese humor as a send-up of what one sees as the flashy but cheap trappings of an Australian read Western civilization, all in a heightened awareness of the approaching demise of the twentieth century'.
Notes
-
Dedication: To Whom It May Concern
-
Epigraph: Either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind - Mao Zedong
-
Epigraph: I was the vanguard to destroy the West before it destroyed the world - The Chinaman by Don'o Kim
-
Epigraph:
A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the West - In imitation of Rudyard Kipling
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Broadway,
Inner Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Wild Peony
, 1997 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Songs of the Last Chinese Poet: Introduction, single work criticism (p. ix-xii)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
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)
-
The Year the Dragon Came : Post-Tiananmen Stories
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 444-451) -
[Review] Songs of the Last Chinese Poet
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 266-267)
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry -
Sleep No More : Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia
2005
single work
essay
— Appears in: Culture, Identity, Commodity : Diasporic Chinese Literature in English 2005; (p. 231-251) -
Echoes of the Object of Affection
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 134)
— Review of Melbourne Elegies : Being an Adaptation and Extension of Goethe's Romische Elegien 1999 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry
-
The Hermit and the Ventriloquist
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , June no. 13 1998; (p. 167-169)
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry ; The Hermit in Translation 1998 selected work poetry -
[Review] Songs of the Last Chinese Poet
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 266-267)
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry -
Don't Play Games, I Want to Be Woken Up
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 25 no. 2 1998; (p. 97-100)
— Review of The Impossible : And Other Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry ; Out of the Fast Lane 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; The Hanging of Jean Lee 1998 single work novel -
Four Books, Five Poets
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 152 1998; (p. 114-116)
— Review of The Hunt and Other Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry ; Travelling Alone Together : In the Footsteps of Edward John Eyre 1998 selected work poetry ; Ruby Camp : A Snowy River Series 1998 selected work poetry ; Ruby Camp : A Snowy River Series, and, Travelling Alone Together : In the Footsteps of Edward John Eyre 1998 selected work poetry ; Trans-Sumatran Highway and Other Poems 1995 selected work poetry -
Poetry Shorts
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 202 1998; (p. 35)
— Review of Not Quite the Man for the Job 1998 selected work poetry ; The Skinscape Voyeur 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry -
Sleep No More : Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia
2005
single work
essay
— Appears in: Culture, Identity, Commodity : Diasporic Chinese Literature in English 2005; (p. 231-251) -
Aozhou Xin Hua Ren Wen Xue Zhong De Si Wang
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Otherland , March no. 5 1999; (p. 96-110)
— Appears in: Otherland , no. 7 2001; (p. 225-242) -
Songs of the Last Chinese Poet: Introduction
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997; (p. ix-xii) -
The Year the Dragon Came : Post-Tiananmen Stories
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 444-451) -
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)
Awards
Last amended 9 Mar 2021 10:29:30
Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
Export this record
