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Grace Yee bundle: Chinese Fish and Joss: A History
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Grace Yee bundle: Chinese Fish and Joss: A History

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Chinese Fish

A family saga narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, Chinese Fish offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a ‘yellow peril’ menace and an exotic ‘model minority’. The book won the Victorian Prize for Literature, the VPLA for Poetry, and the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in 2024.

Joss: A History

Grace Yee’s follow-up to Chinese Fish, Joss: A History is inspired by the lived experiences of early Chinese settlers in Bendigo, and their compatriots and descendants across Victoria and New South Wales, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The poems pay tribute to the author’s ancestors, illuminating how they survived – and thrived – amid longstanding colonialist stories that have exoticised and diminished Chinese communities in white settler nations around the Pacific Rim since the gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Refracted through a twenty-first century lens, Joss is grounded in the conviction that the past is not past, that historical events reverberate insistently in the present.

A special offer on Grace Yee’s acclaimed debut Chinese Fish (2023), and her highly anticipated follow-up, Joss: A History (2025).

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