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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Antipodean China
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'Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a period of almost ten years, from 2011. The engagement between the writers could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as each spoke about the places important to them, their influences and the literary forms in which they wrote, resemblances between them emerged, and the different perspectives contributed to a sense of common understanding, about literature, and about the role of the writer in society. In some cases the communication was even stronger, as when the Tibetan author A Lai speaks knowingly about Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria, and the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan and J.M. Coetzee, discuss what the Nobel meant for each of them.

'The collection also includes writing by some of the best Chinese and Australian writers: novelists Brian Castro, Gail Jones, Julia Leigh, Liu Zhengyun, Sheng Keyi and Xu Xiaobin, poets Kate Fagan, Ouyang Yu, Xi Chuan and Zheng Xiaoqiong, and translators Eric Abrahamsen, Li Yao and John Minford.

'In the current situation of hostility and suspicion between the two countries, this collection presents what, in retrospect, may seem to have been an idyllic moment of communication and trust.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Giramondo Publishing , 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Reading Each Other : China and Australia, Nicholas Jose , Benjamin Madden , single work essay
Broken Sense of Place, Alexis Wright , single work essay
Sovereignty of the Mind, Alexis Wright , single work essay
'Like the Thunder', Alexis Wright , single work essay
Rewriting to Reclaim Ourselves, Alexis Wright , single work essay
The Power of Story, Alexis Wright , single work essay
On Region and Mobility, Alai , single work essay
The Age of World Literature Has Not Really Arrived, Alai , single work essay
On Carpentaria, Alai , single work essay
A River's Gifts, Sheng Keyi , single work essay
A Sense of Place, Julia Leigh , single work essay
Foreign Concessions, Zhao Mei , single work essay
Unmaking the Sandpaper Stair, Kate Fagan , single work essay
The Stomach of Poetry, Zheng Xiaoqiong , single work essay
Migrant Work, Wang Shiyue , single work essay
Literature and the Local, Zu Kun , single work essay
Dark Things, Dorothy Tse , single work essay
Life with Tao, John Minford , single work essay
'A Thousand Bits of Jade' Judith Gautier and Chinese Poetry, Annie Ren , single work essay
Literature and Translation, Li Yao , single work essay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Antipodean China : Reflections on Literary Exchange Xuehai Cui , Jiao Li , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 60 no. 1 2024; (p. 122-123)

— Review of Antipodean China 2021 anthology essay

'Antipodean China was born from a decade of cross-cultural literary exchange between the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University and the Chinese Writers’ Association. It features writings from a wide spectrum of literary figures including writers, poets, translators, and critics, who positively engage with issues of difference in the cross-hemispherical other while envisioning connections between the two countries from a literary perspective. This is embodied in the multi-chapter dialogue between Alexis Wright and the Tibetan writer Alai, which re-imagines the parameters of nation and locality in literary writings.' (Introduction)

Reading Each Other : China and Australia Nicholas Jose , Benjamin Madden , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Antipodean China 2021;
Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden (eds) Antipodean China Declan Fry , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 30 January - 5 February 2021;

— Review of Antipodean China 2021 anthology essay

'Australia and China: the two terms are so fluid, so contested, yet inescapably denotative – the China of the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the diaspora? The Australia that does not exist? Antipodean China, born of intercultural dialogue and exchange, goes against the typical hubris of the global north. Despite enjoying the freedom, power and privilege to learn from other cultures at its cosmopolitan leisure, Australia can often barely be bothered to understand one – whereas the global south, by necessity, must learn about northern cultures alongside its own (and often many others besides). In its inherent concern for this conundrum – and its vanishingly rare appreciation for issues of cultural essentialism and syncretism – Antipodean China practically sells itself.' (Introduction)

Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden (eds) Antipodean China Declan Fry , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 30 January - 5 February 2021;

— Review of Antipodean China 2021 anthology essay

'Australia and China: the two terms are so fluid, so contested, yet inescapably denotative – the China of the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the diaspora? The Australia that does not exist? Antipodean China, born of intercultural dialogue and exchange, goes against the typical hubris of the global north. Despite enjoying the freedom, power and privilege to learn from other cultures at its cosmopolitan leisure, Australia can often barely be bothered to understand one – whereas the global south, by necessity, must learn about northern cultures alongside its own (and often many others besides). In its inherent concern for this conundrum – and its vanishingly rare appreciation for issues of cultural essentialism and syncretism – Antipodean China practically sells itself.' (Introduction)

Antipodean China : Reflections on Literary Exchange Xuehai Cui , Jiao Li , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 60 no. 1 2024; (p. 122-123)

— Review of Antipodean China 2021 anthology essay

'Antipodean China was born from a decade of cross-cultural literary exchange between the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University and the Chinese Writers’ Association. It features writings from a wide spectrum of literary figures including writers, poets, translators, and critics, who positively engage with issues of difference in the cross-hemispherical other while envisioning connections between the two countries from a literary perspective. This is embodied in the multi-chapter dialogue between Alexis Wright and the Tibetan writer Alai, which re-imagines the parameters of nation and locality in literary writings.' (Introduction)

Reading Each Other : China and Australia Nicholas Jose , Benjamin Madden , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Antipodean China 2021;
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