The Travelling Soul: Chinese Poetry in Australia (1901-1934)
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The Travelling Soul is a bilingual selection of poems from Australia’s Chinese press (1901-34). For the first time in English, it makes available a remarkable and varied body of work by migrants, sojourners, and diplomats, who used classical meter and Cantonese folk verse to reflect on the experience of the voyage, their worries about tumult in China, and their new home in Australia.
‘The Travelling Soul is an important new anthology, rendering poetic Chinese views of Australia in vivid translation, shifting what we think we know of this large southern continent at the bottom of the earth, and further enriching our Asian heritage.’
-Sophie Loy Wilson, author of Australians in ShanghaiÂ
Josh Stenberg is a poet, translator, and associate professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney.
Lap Lam is an associate professor of classical Chinese literature at the National University of Singapore and chairperson of the General Society for Chinese Classical Poetry (International).
