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Author: Juliana Qian

Juliana Qian is a Shanghainese/Melburnian writer and performer. Her growing menagerie of pseudonyms is something of an impediment to recognition but her words have appeared in Peril and Going Down Swinging and onstage at Midsumma and POC THE MIC. She broadcasts for Queering the Air on 3CR 855am.

208 Spring 2012: Features

The name and the face

CAL-Connections: On not speaking Chinese

Juliana Qian

I have the name and the face. And if it’s enough to make a stranger shout ni hao at me from across the street, then maybe it should be enough for me too. Sometimes I like a good comeback, something like ‘A-ya, dui bu qi, wo de zhong wen bu shi tai hao, xiang ni zen me cong ming de ren da gai ye hui shuo yin wen ba?’, which means ‘Oh dear, my Chinese isn’t too good, but a genius like you probably also speaks English, right?’

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Subscriberthon 2012: Juliana Qian on writing that provokes and delights

Author: Juliana Qian
Posted on: 12 November 2012

Debates on anthropogenic climate change still argue over its existence and successful refugee policy is measured in terms of deterrence, not protection. Overland starts somewhere else. And then moves forward with a refreshing direction. It encourages those conversations the left so desperately needs to have, that keep getting sidelined or postponed in response to another event, another catastrophe. It challenges the idea that the ideological and aesthetic must be in competition with writing that provokes and delights.

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