Helene Chung Helene Chung i(A63457 works by) (a.k.a. Helene Dorothy Chung; Helene Chung Martin; Helene Dorothy Chung Martin)
Born: Established: 1945 ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Chinese
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1 Writing from the Roots Helene Chung , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 303 2008; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Growing up Asian in Australia 2008 anthology autobiography short story poetry interview extract
1 3 y separately published work icon Ching Chong China Girl : From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent Helene Chung , Sydney : ABC Books , 2008 Z1505319 2008 single work autobiography

'Ching Chong China Girl portrays four generations of Tasmanian Chinese and canvasses changes in society from White to Multicultural Australia. Its theme is the search for identity with the sub-themes of East versus West, the integration of Australian and Chinese values, and my accidental career in journalism. Unlike conventional agonising over a Catholic childhood, this memoir, with its racial, religious, sexual and sexist humour, agonises over both the colour of the flesh and the sins of the parent's flesh. It is also an amusing expose of off-air antics inside the once-chauvinist ABC.

'A former Beijing correspondent, the first non-white reporter on Australian TV and the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, I am a fourth-generation Tasmanian Chinese. A daughter of Australia's first Chinese divorcees, I grew up in 1950s Hobart. My sister and I were the only ones at our Catholic school with divorced parents. We were the only two with black hair. In that world of fair-haired girls from nice homes with Holden cars, we kept a shocking secret. Our mother, Miss Henry, was a nude model. She lived in sin with a foreign devil and drove a red MG. Fortunately, the family feud kept our father's three other marriages under wraps.' (Provided by the publisher)

1 Regime of Fear Helene Chung , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 269 2005; (p. 50)

— Review of Jing Shui Liu Shen Zheng Zeng , 2004 single work autobiography
1 4 y separately published work icon Lazy Man in China Helene Chung (editor), John Martin , Canberra : Pandanus Books , 2004 Z1139798 2004 single work correspondence travel humour

'... Lazy Man in China is John Martin's witty, perceptive, self-deprecating take on China, drawn from letters to family and friends, and edited and updated by his wife, former Beijing correspondent Helene Chung.

John Martin, the self-dubbed lazy man, accompanied Chung and worked as "the token Australian and the token man" in the Australian embassy aid section. His images are shot through with colour, ironic humour and insight as Old Communism gives way to New Capitalism. He didn't live to see the China that Chung experienced in 2002, the cosmopolitan China of BMWs, new rich, new poor and a Tiananmen Square emptied on the thirteenth anniversary of the massacre by a World Cup soccer game viewed on giant screens.' Source: http://www.helenechung.com/ (Sighted 22/09/10)

1 The Reception is Over Helene Chung , 2004 single work correspondence travel
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 2 2004; (p. 108-118)
Melbourne-based journalist Helen Chung Martin, on assignment in Peking during the early 1980s, describes her experiences through letters home at the time.
1 y separately published work icon Gentle John - My Love, My Loss Helene Chung , Melbourne : Hill of Content , 1995 Z1727203 1995 single work biography

'This is a story of love, death and grief. John Martin and Helene Chung met as students at the University of Tasmania in 1963. Thirteen years later, when he was a lecturer in history at the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong, and she an ABC television reporter in Hobart, she interviewed him on This Day Tonight — an interview that sparked a lifelong romance.

In 1991, when the couple were living in Melbourne, John underwent apparently successful surgery for colon cancer but, a year later, an inoperable tumour was found in his pelvis. In 1993 he was suddenly admitted to hospital again, with an obstructed bowel. Although John and Helene thought he would be home within days, surgery was needed and he proved too weak to recover. John died peacefully and painlessly, Helene by his side...' Source: http://www.helenechung.com/ (Sighted 22/09/10)

2 y separately published work icon Shouting from China Helene Chung , Ringwood : Penguin , 1988 Z903398 1988 single work autobiography travel The author relates her experience of visiting China, the land of her ancestors.
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