Cherry Zheng Cherry Zheng i(19662509 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Fucking with Chineseness Cherry Zheng , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 171 2024; (p. 4-10) 'Shaohua couldn't pronounce his own name. 'Shaohuaaa,' he said, like Ron Weasley trying to make feathers fly. It wasn't for lack of trying. He had taken to speaking at a plodding pace in order to be understood. For me, sitting beside him, this was the aural equivalent of a very slow flogging.' (Introduction)
1 The Stranger Cherry Zheng , 2021 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Cicerone Journal , no. 5 2021;
1 Libations Cherry Zheng , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 242 2021; (p. 22-24)

'TW: torture

My mother calls her arrival in Australia 'the years of hell'. In one story, she worked at the dry cleaners for an unbroken days. By happy accident, she never left. Thanks to Bob Hawke's tearful tribute, she stumbled into citizenship after 1989, the winner of a grisly scratchcard along with some forty thousand other Chinese. To this day, she votes Labor.' (Introduction)
1 Urban Gods Cherry Zheng , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 238 2020; (p. 87-93)
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