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Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia (review)

Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in... Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia (review) Lily Xiao Hong Lee China Review International, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1997, pp. 166-170 (Review) Published by University of Hawai'i Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.1997.0032 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/397211/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 01:28 GMT from JHU Libraries i66 China Review International: Vol. 4, No. i, Spring 1997 J. Bruce Jacobs and Ouyang Yu, translators. Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, 1995. x, 249 pp. Paperback, isbn 0- 7326-0871-6. The two novellas translated in this volume have previously appeared in Chinese literary magazines.1 Set in Sydney and Melbourne, respectively, they tell of the Od- yssey of some Chinese students in Australia in the mid-1980s. Unlike their coun- terparts in the U.S., most Chinese students who came to Australia during this pe- riod did so to study English, and consequentiy knew very little English to begin with. Since the Australian policy at the time was to "export education" in the form of English-language courses, anyone who was willing to pay a halfyear of tuition and living expenses http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia (review)

Lee, Lily Xiao Hong.
China Review International , Volume 4 (1) – Mar 30, 2011
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Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia (review) Lily Xiao Hong Lee China Review International, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1997, pp. 166-170 (Review) Published by University of Hawai'i Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.1997.0032 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/397211/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 01:28 GMT from JHU Libraries i66 China Review International: Vol. 4, No. i, Spring 1997 J. Bruce Jacobs and Ouyang Yu, translators. Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, 1995. x, 249 pp. Paperback, isbn 0- 7326-0871-6. The two novellas translated in this volume have previously appeared in Chinese literary magazines.1 Set in Sydney and Melbourne, respectively, they tell of the Od- yssey of some Chinese students in Australia in the mid-1980s. Unlike their coun- terparts in the U.S., most Chinese students who came to Australia during this pe- riod did so to study English, and consequentiy knew very little English to begin with. Since the Australian policy at the time was to "export education" in the form of English-language courses, anyone who was willing to pay a halfyear of tuition and living expenses

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