Beyond the Yellow Pale: Essays and Criticism, a collection of academic, literary and critical essays, by Ouyang Yu, is soon to be published in Melbourne, Australia. It collects writings he wrote in recent years, some of which were published in academic and literary journals in the English speaking world. The collection contains writings on his travels in the USA, China and New Zealand. There are articles discussing issues of autobiography and literary censorship as well as problems of belonging in multicultural Australia; there are writings on poetry related to Ouyang’s personal experience as a poet, going back to the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s China; and there are also interviews with Ouyang by a number of people from different linguistic, cultural and literary backgrounds.

A Table of Contents is provided below for your reference:

Absurdities American
Against Autobiography: Towards a Self-fictionalisation
Asian Panel Talk at Byron Bay
Axis of Exiles: Writing and Teaching between China, Australia and New Zealand
Bonking without Book or Book without Bonking: a Personal Encounter of Cultural Censorship
Book-digging to China, to a Kind of Origin
English and Chinese: Closest Neighbours Apart
Issues Remaining Unresolved: The Turn of the Century Literary Representations of the Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1995–2007
Lowerdowns, Rubbish and Low Poetry: a brief look at contemporary Chinese poetry in all its downward thrust
Make Mind, Not Just Money
My 40-odd Diaries: Lost, and Found Here
Not on My Agenda
One-person’s Poet: Variations of Death
On Third Thoughts: Pen-notes Taken at Kingsbury
Pain and Pleasure of a Cultural and Linguistic Transplant
Poetry is an Air
Post The Kingsbury Tales: poems that fall outside time and history
Shakespeare’s Surname: on Cultural Incorrectness
Someone and How It Came About
The Education of a Poet
The Importance of Being Incorrect: from the Burma Road, Old and New
To Be(long) or Not to Be(long): Issues of Belonging in a Post-malticultural Australia
Twenty Years in Migration: 1989–2008: a writer’s view and review
Where Have All the hua Gone: Individuals Ejected out of Australian History
Where Mind Fails
Interview with Ouyang Yu by Victorian Writers Centre
Interview with Ouyang Yu by Sandra Fabbretti
‘You in the I’: The Chinese-Australian writer Ouyang Yu speaks to Prem Poddar
Interview with Ouyang Yu by Stephen Brock

This book is published in a limited edition of only 100 copies, with each copy numbered and signed, priced at $69.95/copy, plus postage/handling:

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New Zealand: $69.95 (AUD)
Australia: $69.95 (AUD)
China: $69.95 (AUD or equivalent in Chinese RMB)

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