July 11th, 2019
Meet Wenhui from Chin family and the winner of Monash University’s Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies Scholarship

Wenhui has been part of Chin family since 2018. She is currently studying her Master of Interpreting and Translation at Monash University. Her passion for language, design and fine arts is a true treasure to Chin. Listen to her story with Chin and how she was drawn into the world of language.— Editor’s note  Before […]

June 19th, 2019
A Terracotta Family Reunion in Melbourne 2019, by Charles Qin

I am imagining a visit from my Chinese ancestors – my surname Qin is the name of China’s first and most famous emperor who built a stone army to guard his tomb in China. As Hong Kong University’s Xun Zhou has said: “No Qin, no China.” And we would have needed to find a different […]

May 8th, 2019
Bendigo a microcosm of early Chinese Culture and Language

I grew up in rural Victoria – up in the Mallee – a long way in those days from Melbourne. In a small country town the school was bland and vanilla compared to multicultural Australia as we now know it. Our only awareness of other cultures came on visits to Bendigo – to the local […]

The top political topics on English language social media are the Adani coal mine, economy, social policy, governance and the environment (Fin Review, 24 April 2019), with Bill Shorten, Scott Morrison and Pauline Hanson the top politicians mentioned, but as we heard on ABC’s AM this morning, there is a whole other social media world […]