{"product_id":"joss-a-history-by-grace-yee-9781923106314","title":"Joss: A History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrace Yee's follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection \u003ci\u003eChinese Fish\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo, the remains of more than a thousand 'chinamen' lie interred, many in unmarked graves. Most were sojourners from the Canton region in south China who found themselves unable to return to their homeland. \u003ci\u003eJoss: A History\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by the lived experiences of these early settlers, their compatriots and descendants across Victoria and New South Wales, and Aotearoa New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems pay tribute to the author's ancestors, illuminating how they survived and thrived amid longstanding colonialist stories that have exoticised and diminished Chinese communities in white settler nations around the Pacific Rim since the gold rushes of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRefracted through a twenty-first-century lens, \u003ci\u003eJoss\u003c\/i\u003e is grounded in the conviction that the past is not past, and that historical events reverberate insistently in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260166914284,"sku":"9781923106314","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/original_temp_img.jpg?v=1769643120","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/joss-a-history-by-grace-yee-9781923106314","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}