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Helene Chung

Helene Chung, a former ABC Beijing correspondent, is a fourth-generation Tasmanian Chinese and the author of a memoir, Ching Chong China Girl: From fruitshop to foreign correspondent (2008).

Helene Chung reviews 'Growing Up Asian in Australia' edited by Alice Pung

July–August 2008, no. 303 01 July 2008
This book is dedicated to all Asian Australians. Like the term ‘Chinese Australian’, ‘Asian Australian’ is revealing to my baby-boomer generation of Australian-born Chinese, for we have lived most of our lives known as Australian Chinese, a term that stresses our ethnic background over our Australian birthplace, even though our families have contributed to Australia for four, five or six g ... (read more)