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JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU
JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU is a widely-published writer of essays, poetry, fiction and scholarly work. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.


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ALL THE STAIN IS TENDER: THE ASIAN DELUGE AND WHITE AUSTRALIA

Essay

Issue No. 30

JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU

Essay

Issue No. 30

I was three years old when Pauline Hanson announced in Parliament that Australia was ‘in danger of being swamped by Asians’. In her 1996...

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fiction

January 2015

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

TR. Deborah Smith

fiction

January 2015

Originally published as three separate novellas, the second of which secured the prestigious Yi Sang prize, The Vegetarian has...

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Issue No. 16

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 16

The political and internet activist Eli Pariser coined the term ‘Filter Bubble’ in 2011 to describe how we have...

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January 2017

Take Comfort

Heather Radke

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January 2017

I. One week after Buzz and Heather broke up, she dragged her mattress into her living room. She moved...

 

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