Alice Pung
Hair Apparent
Alice Pung
Mr Abe Lourie is 81, and tells me that he is in perfect health. Every morning he walks up two flights of stairs to open his store. The lift...
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Border Crossings: John Safran's 'Race Relations'
Alice Pung
The Torah says that we do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. In our everyday relationships, we take ourselves as the...
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Chinese Whispers: Zachary Mexico’s ‘China Underground’
Alice Pung
Zachary Mexico can tell a really good yarn. He will sit you in the swankiest bar in Beijing’s Houhai district or a cheap polluted noodle...
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The Nation Reviewed
School Days
Alice Pung
‘Ladies' is such a salacious word when slurred by young men, but when enunciated by a carefully coiffured middle-aged lady to a mass of...
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The Nation Reviewed
Looking Sheepish
Alice Pung
"Sheep's placenta for the face is all the rage among Chinese women," my father said. All his mainland-Chinese friends told him that this...
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The Nation Reviewed
Ally of the Dolls
Alice Pung
She was found beneath the floorboards of an old house in Geelong, and appeared to have been through a fire. Her body had disintegrated, but...
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The Nation Reviewed
24/7
Alice Pung
Bianca promised to drive me to the 24-hour Kmart in East Burwood, Melbourne, because I wanted to see what people need to buy at three in...
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Alice Pung, on Unpolished Gem. Mildura Writers' Festival
Alice Pung
Alice Pung is at her hilarious, self-deprecating best in this conversation with Kerry Conway at the recent Mildura Writers' Festival....
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Alice Pung, in conversation with Kerry Conway about Unpolished Gem (P2)
Alice Pung
Alice Pung is at her hilarious, self-deprecating best in this conversation with Kerry Conway at the recent Mildura Writers' Festival....
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The Nation Reviewed
Katharine’s Place
Alice Pung
I am in Greenmount, Western Australia. The sign outside the house says Katharine's Place, but I didn't realise that her husband was still...
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