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Growing Up Asian in Australia Paperback – 2 June 2008

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Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour.
They tell tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great-grandfather's Chinese village.
Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian.
Contributors include- Shaun Tan, Jenny Kee, Annette Shun Wah, Anh Do, Khoa Do, John So, Simone Lazaroo, Christopher Cyril, Jason Yat-Sen Li, Sunil Badami, Hoa Pham, Quan Yeomans, Caroline Tran, Tom Cho, Vanessa Woods and many more ...

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Growing Up in Australia
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2 June 2008
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13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
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Alice Pung is a writer and lawyer whose work has appeared in the Age, Good Weekend, The Monthly and Meanjin. Her first book, Unpolished Gem, has become a national bestseller and has been published under various imprints around the world. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Age Book of the Year Award, and won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australian Industry Book Awards.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Inc; Original paperback edition (2 June 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1863951911
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1863951913
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm

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Vanessa Woods is the Director of the Duke Puppy Kindergarten and an award winning author and journalist. Her memoir Bonobo Handshake (June 2010), won the Thomas Lowell award for non-fiction, and her children’s book It’s True! Space turns you into spaghetti won the acclaimed book award from The Royal Society in 2007.
Woods has written for various publications including the Wall Street Journal, BBC Wildlife, New Scientist, and the New York Times. In 2003, she won the Australasian Science award for journalism.
Hare and Woods are married and live in North Carolina. Their book The Genius of Dogs, was a New York Times Bestseller. Their upcoming book Survival of the Friendliest will be released summer of 2020.
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Alice Pung is an Australian author whose award-winning books span the genres of memoir, non-fiction, anthology, young adult and children's fiction. Alice's first book Unpolished Gem won the 2007 Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year. Her second book, Her Father's Daughter, won the 2011 Western Australia Premier's Literary Award, and her first novel, Laurinda won the 2016 Ethel Turner Prize. Laurinda is published in the United States as Lucy and Linh, and has been a Kirkus-starred book.
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Karen

Anyone looking for better understanding of what it is like trying to assimilate.

Reviewed in Australia on 20 February 2016

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This book helped to give me greater insight. I laughed, I cried, there were 'lightbulb' moments. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to gain better understanding of what it is like for those from different cultural backgrounds trying to find their place.

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Anne Whight

Rare and privileged glimpses into the experience of growing up Asian in Australia

Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2016

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A fascinating collection of the experiences of Asian settlers in Australia. Some were well known identities, others not so, but all offered amazing and very personal insights into their early lives. I thought I might find it all a bit repetitive but each story offers a different take on their experiences at school, at home or socialising. Some are sad, some made me smile, but above all it made me feel very privileged to be able share these glimpses.

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Wu the best

A fantastic read

Reviewed in Australia on 11 June 2018

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Growing Up Asian In Australia depicts the sad story of Asians growing up in Australia which supposedly a peaceful country without war and also multicultural. However it isn't war that bothered these people but white kids growing up here. They would taunt and tease these children because of their country and looks. In this book we learn about what the children all suffered when the first met white people and how they suffered. Many Asian people were called names. This book also has story of their life at home and how they have to work hard to survive on their meagre income.

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Sydney1981

A wonderful insight

Reviewed in Australia on 22 February 2015

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A wonderful insight into the lives of prominent Asian-Australians. A necessary read, especially for those opposed to multiculturalism and diversity.

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Jennifer Dyson

One Star

Reviewed in Australia on 21 February 2016

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Bit disappointing.

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Belinda Austin

Quick and interesting read

Reviewed in the United States on 17 April 2015

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Great combination of short stories from various authors. Interesting how different yet in some ways how similar the stories of growing up Asian in Australia during 60-90's are.

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Multicultural perspectives

Reviewed in the United States on 11 April 2013

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A grand insight to how the other half live or more relevantly see and are seen. Great collection of short stories on life that is Oz as Asian.

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