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Books: ‘The Lily Theatre’, ‘Mao’s Children in the New China’

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS, UncategorizedOctober 21, 2000

China’s younger generation reflects THE LILY THEATREby Lulu WangTranslated by Hester VelmansHodderRec. price: $19.95 MAO’S CHILDREN IN THE NEW CHINAcompiled by Yarong Jiang and David AshleyRoutledge Reviewed by Denise Chen English biographical and fictional works relating to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China is becoming more common as first and second generation migrants settle into their new homes in the West. Having mastered their adopted home tongue, they are more able to express their accounts succinctly in the new language. Jung Chang and Amy Tan, author of Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club wrote from England and America respectively.…

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Canberra Observed: PM’s “body surf” swamps ALP

UncategorizedOctober 21, 2000

The Federal Opposition is suffering a serious malaise which, if not arrested quickly, is likely to do damage to its already fragile position in the opinion polls. Recent polls, which are deceptive mid-term anyway, show the Beazley-led Labor Party either neck and neck or narrowly leading the Government, even after the biggest tax overhaul in…

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STRAWS IN THE WIND: What peace process?

STRAWS IN THE WINDOctober 21, 2000

What peace process? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict drags on – to the general horror and exasperation of the whole world. Arabs and Jews began fighting from the early 1920s onwards – and the object of their disputation then, as now, was land. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, generally interpreted by Jews as promising the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine, by means unspecified, sounded the first alarm bells for some Arabs, and gave religious demagogues, such as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a platform from which to mobilise the overwhelming majority – Palestinian Arabs – to resist social change,…

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Cover Story: Apples and AQIS

COVER STORY, News WeeklyOctober 21, 2000

Colin Teese, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, warns against moves to overturn our stringent quarantine regulations in the name of free trade. Matters associated with quarantine are in the news, in particular, the circumstances under which imports are permitted of plants, animals and fish from countries where such items carry transmissible diseases,…

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