Chris Tse

How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes

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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;… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-77558-755-2
EAN: 9781775587552
Produktnummer: 35598965
Verlag: Auckland University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Chris Tse is an editor, a writer, an actor, a musician, and a filmmaker. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including AUP New Poets 4, Cha, Landfall, Sport, and Turbine. He was the winner of the 2009 NZ Chinese Association/Listener short story competition.