Astronauts, lost souls & dragons
Subtitle: voices of today's Chinese Australians
By: in conversation with Diana Giese.
Series: UQP paperbacks
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: St. Lucia, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Chinese -- Australia -- Interviews.; Australia -- Ethnic relations.; Australia -- Social life and customs.; Australia -- Emigration and immigration.
Other titles: Astronauts, lost souls, and dragons; Voices of today's Chinese Australians
First sentence: What does it mean to be Chinese Australian...?
Description: A fascinating collection of stories of the struggles, hopes and successes of Chinese Australians: descendants of the 'old families', post-Tiananmen arrivals, Boat People of the 1970s, and those from Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Pacific. These voices, recorded for the National Library of Australia's Post-War Chinese Australians oral history project, reclaim heritage and dream of the future. They reinterpret what it means to be Australian.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Conversations with Chinese Australians; title: Arriving; title: Pioneers and Boundary-crossers...; title: Informants