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Billy Sing by Ouyang Yu
$27.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
William 'Billy' Sing was born in 1886 to an English mother and Chinese father. He and his two sisters were brought up in Clermont and Proserpine, in rural Queensland. He was one of the first to enlist in 1914 and at Gallipoli became famous for his shooting prowess. In his new novel, Billy Sing, Ouyang Y ...Show more
Breaking New Sky: Contemporary Poetry from China by Ouyang Yu
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is a wonderful eclectic collection of the work of known and unknown contemporary Chinese poets which marks a sea change in the form. Lyrical, political, and yet down-to-earth, this new poetry exhibits a liberating, existential dimension previously constricted by propoganda and self-censorship. The ...Show more
English Class by Ouyang Yu
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the end of the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 1970s Jing, an educated youth (zhishi qingnian) who has spent a few years as a peasant in the countryside, becomes a truck driver in a provincial shipyard. He manages to teach himself English in adverse circumstances while driving his truck, eve ...Show more
Fainting with Freedom by Ouyang Yu
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fainting with Freedom displays Ouyang Yu's characteristic wrestlings with absurdity, the quotidian and the pain of history, while maintaining a distinctly different take on what constitutes 'the self'. The poems shimmer with language-play - through slippages between English and Chinese, a more illuminat ...Show more
Flag of Permanent Defeat by Yu Ouyang
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ouyang Yu has been one of Australia's most prolific producers of poetry, translations and edited collections for the last three decades. He has also been nominated, in April 2019, as one of the top ten poets for 2018 in China as a xianfeng shiren (avant-garde poet) because he has been writing poetry tha ...Show more
Home Is Further Away Than the Lightning by Zhang Chunhua; Ouyang Ouyang Yu (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Loose: A Wild History by Ouyang Yu
$31.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This unique narrative takes place around the turn of this century, partly in Australia and partly in China and its provinces, where Ouyang Yu's brother Ouyang Ming, a famed Falungong practitioner who was tortured to death, enters the story.
On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian by Ouyang Yu
$27.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Scholarly and scatological, this cornucopia of fun and wisdom is a breathtaking picture of speech, thought and images from the world's richest and oldest culture, giving an insight into how English-lang- uage and Chinese-language cultures collide, contrast and illuminate each other. It's about what is l ...Show more
Self Translation by Ouyang Yu
$25.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
in the river before the eye on the heaven beneath the feet Poems first written in Chinese but now presented in both Chinese and English, Self Translation is arguably Ouyang Yus most lyrical and resonant collection of poetry to date. The verse inhabits China and Australia in spirit and the natural wor ...Show more