How To Be Dead In A Year Of Snakes by Chris Tse
How To Be Dead In A Year Of Snakes by Chris Tse
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In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other east Asian immigrants. Author Chris Tse uses this story—and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later—to reflect on the experiences of Chinese migrants of the period, their wishes and hopes, their estrangement and alienation, their ghostly reverberation through a white-majority culture. Along the way readers visit the gold fields of the south; a shipwreck in the Hokianga that left the spirits of 500 Chinese gold miners in an unmemorialized limbo for a hundred years; and the streets of Newtown, Wellington, where Lionel Terry went out one night “looking for a Chinaman. ”. This 2016 Auckland University Press Paperback is in good condition. Annotated. Some poems have lines underlined or bracketed in pen.
ISBN: 9781869408183 SKU: 1573888 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.
Location: NZ Poetry