Author’s note

For a small book, there are many people to thank, including the editors of the publications where some of the essays first appeared. I’d like to thank Ah Xian and his family, Geremie Barmé, Kathy Bail, Suzy Baldwin, Bruce Bennett, Michael Bollen, Stephanie Johnston and Elisabeth Klein, Ian Britain, Alison Broinowski, Peter Browne, Margaret Burke, Johnson Chang, Rosemary Creswell, Maryanne Dever, Susan Dewar, Tamsin Donaldson, Dinah Dysart, Guan Wei and Liu Pin, Paul Hetherington, Ivor Indyk, Ken Inglis, Linda Jaivin, Kate and Murray McLean, Humphrey McQueen, George Papaellinas, Cassandra Pybus, Claire Roberts, Sang Ye and Sue Trevaskes, Adam Shoemaker, Christina Slade, Max Suich, Ian Templeman, Neil Thompson, Wang Ziyin, Michael Xu and Neil Whitfield. Acknowledgements are due to The Age Monthly Review, Art & AsiaPacific, Asian Arts Society of Australia Review, Australian Quarterly, Australian Society, Independent Monthly, Island Magazine, Orientations, Republica, Southerly, 24 Hours, Voices, and Webber’s; to Rosemary Dobson, Randolph Stow and Fay Zwicky for permission to quote from their work; to Jacaranda Wiley for permission to quote from ‘China . . . Woman’ by Oodgeroo; and to University of Queensland Press for permis­sion to reprint ‘Sang Ye: curio merchant’.