
Episode #31
31. Dueling Australians in China
What Happened to Riley - is the first piece of Chinese-Australian literature written in English. It follows The Poison of Polygamy (see podcast No.29) by some twenty years and pre-dates the next example of this literature by some fifty years. Why is this short story almost unknown, despite this distinction and its remarkable tale of a confrontation between a Chinese Australian and a European Australian in warlord China? The answer tells us something of the narrowness of perceptions about what is “Australian” as well as about the breadth of experiences that embodies the term “Chinese Australian”. For a full copy of the story - https://www.dropbox.com/s/m06nzez6bucg1h8/What%20Happened%20to%20Riley..pdf?dl=1 Please check out our publications at ChideStudy Press https://chidestudypresscom.wordpress.com/the-bookstore Feel free to ask questions at: chidestudypress@gmail.com For more on Chinese Australian history check out Chinese Australian History in 88 Objects - https://chinozhistory.org/index.php/suggest-an-object/

