Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 197 Summer 2009 · Main Posts Issue 197 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence Towards 200: Fiona Capp − The Lost Garden CAL Art and Life: Darshana Jayemanne − The Resident of Evil Creek* Essays Guy Rundle − When the rubric hits the Rudd Anwyn Crawford − The monarch of middlebrow Lizzie O’Shea − Beautiful as the sunset Francesca Rendle-Short − My father’s body Sophie Cunningham − Places of shade Thomas Rye − Sea eagle dreaming Liz Thompson & Ben Rosenzweig − Permanent residency not sold separately, education not included Fiction Shane Strange − Fiveash David McLaren − An odd sort of absence Virginia Peters − The fat man Warren Barker − Devil take the child (online only) (PDF) Reviews Kerry Leves − poetry Peter Mitchell − Marion May Campbell Keri Glastonbury − Tom Cho Tom O’Lincoln − politics Poetry Kate Fagan − Authentic Nature Claire Gaskin − walking away Martin Harrison − this rain Hugh Tolhurst − HMAS Musicianship Caroline Williamson − Winter morning Nick Whittock − barbados − pilates of the caribbean Jal Nicholl − The doorkeeper Les Wicks − Terminal One Duncan Hose − Sat. morning Sam Langer − Rome Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.