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Chapter 3 China
May 31, 20190

Refuge #14: Ants everywhere

Previously in Refuge #13 Lady Camellia and Mother Hubbard: Josie describes how an people read and copied banned books in secret during the Cultural Revolution. Her life story...

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Chapter 3 China
May 24, 20190

Refuge #13 Lady Camellia and Mother Hubbard

Josie names the Western books - many French classics - that she read and copied during the Cultural Revolution. Later, scar literature evolved in China, a response to those...

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Chapter 3 China
May 17, 20194

Refuge #12 White Fungus

Previously: After migrating to Australia, I begin teaching English at a vocational college. My students prompt me to write a collection of refugee stories. A former Australian...

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Chapter 2 Romania
May 10, 20190

Refuge #11: Skin Names

Previously: Carmen escapes from Romania via Hungary. In Austria, she learns English while living in an Austrian pub-motel, where she lives under the protection of the UN. SKIN...

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Close-up of young man - brown hair and bushy beard - and woman smiling
Chapter 2 Romania
May 3, 20190

Refuge#10 Polaroid Colour

Previously: In her third year at university, Carmen realised with startling clarity that Romania had no future and she had no future in Romania. She decided that the first...

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