Contents

Preface

In Chinese – A story

Shots through the bars

The embarrassment of the kangaroo

Translating China

Australia’s China

Bridging people – The Yellow Lady

Asian impersonations

History repeats – Ernest Morrison’s China

Romancers of Old Peking

Sang Ye: curio merchant

‘The web that has no weaver’ – Notes on cultural exchange

Oodgeroo in China

In the mountains under a blue sky

My search for a shaman – Contemporary Chinese art

Eunuch culture

The beat goes on

Screen dreams

Green oil – Media images of Australia/Asia

Taiwan: treasure island

Cultural trading – What have we got to show?

Out of Hong Kong – Timothy Mo

Ice city – How to make friends in China

Selected Bibliography