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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 The China Coin
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'This novel is the story of a teenage girl's journey with her mother through China. While fiction, the story is set during the real-life turbulent months of student pro-democracy demonstrations across China which culminated in what became known as the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989.' (Source: HSC material)

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has an Asian setting.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 1991 .
      Extent: 190p.
      ISBN: 0670836257 (pbk.)
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1992 .
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      Extent: 189p.
      Description: maps.
      ISBN: 0140347534 (pbk.)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2013 .
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      Extent: 189p.p.
      ISBN: 9780140347531, 0140347534
Alternative title: Eine Munze Fuhrt Nach China
Language: German
    • Erlangen,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Boje ,       1993 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Description: illus., maps.
      ISBN: 3414884828
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Works about this Work

Interview with Allan Baillie Michelle Dicinoski (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: Asian-Australian Children's Literature : Interviews with Seven Authors 2012; (p. 18-19) Allan Baillie discusses his research and writing processes, with a particular focus on his book The China Coin.
God's One Country : The Description of Asians by Australian Children's Authors Stella Lees , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 62-73) 'This paper will examine some of the representations made of Asian characters in Australian children's literature, with particular reference to the image of Chinese, who are the Asian people most frequently alluded before World War I and who have continued to be present in more recent writing' (62).
Allan Baillie : 'Extending Horizons' Maureen Nimon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 105-114)
Multiculturalism in Recent Australian Children's Fiction : (Re)Constructing Selves Through Personal and National Histories John Stephens , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Other Worlds, Other Lives : Children's Literature Experiences : Volume 3 1996; (p. 1-19) Stephens examines the dissemination of ideologies of multiculturalism in Australian children's texts.
Images of China in Australian Fiction : Shifting Perceptions of Self and Other Frances LaFleur , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Nationalism vs. Internationalism : (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English 1996; (p. 503-509)
[Review] The China Coin Laurie Copping , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 36 no. 1 1992; (p. 28)
— Review of The China Coin Allan Baillie , 1991 single work novel
[Review] The China Coin Kevin Steinberger , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 6 no. 5 1991; (p. 32)
— Review of The China Coin Allan Baillie , 1991 single work novel
Rewarding for Adolescents Frances Kelly , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 26 October 1991; (p. 13)
— Review of Hostilities Caroline Macdonald , 1991 selected work short story ; The China Coin Allan Baillie , 1991 single work novel ; Change the Locks Simon French , 1991 single work novel ; Peter Kate Walker , 1991 single work novel ; Another Sparrow Singing Eleanor Spence , 1991 single work children's fiction ; All in the Blue Unclouded Weather Robin Klein , 1991 single work novel
Challenging Account of China Quest Marguerite Johnson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 12 October 1991; (p. 12)
— Review of The China Coin Allan Baillie , 1991 single work novel
Windows to a Child's Own World Leonie Tyle , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 July 1992; (p. 7)
— Review of Scatterlings Isobelle Carmody , 1991 single work novel ; The Sea-Breeze Hotel Marcia Kay Vaughan , 1989 single work picture book ; The China Coin Allan Baillie , 1991 single work novel ; A Bit of Company Margaret Wild , 1991 single work picture book ; Speedy Colin Thiele , 1991 single work children's fiction ; What's That Noise? What's That Sound? Morris Lurie , 1991 single work picture book ; Sooner or Later Sophie Masson , 1991 single work novel
From Real Life to Fiction Krista Bell , 1992 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 7 no. 1 1992; (p. 12-13) Krista Bell talks to three authors about how real-life experiences can be transformed into literature for children and young people. The authors are Australian Allan Baillie, Scottish author Joan Lingard, and Irish author Martin Waddell.
God's One Country : The Description of Asians by Australian Children's Authors Stella Lees , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 62-73) 'This paper will examine some of the representations made of Asian characters in Australian children's literature, with particular reference to the image of Chinese, who are the Asian people most frequently alluded before World War I and who have continued to be present in more recent writing' (62).
Interview with Allan Baillie Michelle Dicinoski (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: Asian-Australian Children's Literature : Interviews with Seven Authors 2012; (p. 18-19) Allan Baillie discusses his research and writing processes, with a particular focus on his book The China Coin.
Multiculturalism in Recent Australian Children's Fiction : (Re)Constructing Selves Through Personal and National Histories John Stephens , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Other Worlds, Other Lives : Children's Literature Experiences : Volume 3 1996; (p. 1-19) Stephens examines the dissemination of ideologies of multiculturalism in Australian children's texts.
Allan Baillie : 'Extending Horizons' Maureen Nimon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 105-114)
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Subjects:
  • Tiananmen Square, Beijing,
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    China,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • Beijing,
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    China,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1980s
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