Growing Up Asian in Australia.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Relative Advantages of Learning My Language -- Sticks and Stones and Such-like -- Learning English -- Chinese Lessons -- The Early Settlers -- The Terrorists -- The Upside-Down Year -- The Water Buffalo -- The Ganges and Its Tributaries -- The Beat of a Different Drum -- Pigs from Home -- Spiderbait -- Take Me Away, Please -- Wei-Lei and Me -- Hot and Spicy -- Lessons from My School Years -- Exotic Rissole -- Perfect Chinese Children -- The Asian Disease -- Crackers -- Conversations with My Parents -- The Year of the Rooster -- Are You Different? -- Tourism -- The Family Tree -- The Firstborn -- Family Life -- Quarrel -- Ginseng Tea and a Pair of Thongs -- Teenage Dreamers -- Destiny -- Dancing Lessons -- Papa Bear -- Towards Manhood -- The Lover in the Fish Sauce -- The Embarrassments of the Gods -- My First Kiss -- A Big Life -- Be Good, Little Migrants -- How to Be Japanese -- Silence -- Anzac Day -- Special Menu -- A Call to Arms -- Chinese Dancing, Bendigo Style -- Five Ways to Disappoint Your Vietnamese Mother -- The Courage of Soldiers -- You Can't Choose Your Memories -- These Are the Photographs We Take -- My China -- The Face in the Mirror -- Baked Beans and Burnt Toast -- Hanoi and Other Homes -- Publication Details -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements.

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great-grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat-Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.

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