Online: Interview #147 — Jinghua Qian, Liminal, 7 September 2020, by Arlie Alizzi with illustrations by Viet-My Bui.
Online: NüProfile: Jinghua Qian on why ‘China-watching’ is problematic, and un-belonging in Australia, NüVoices, 30 September 2020, by Annabelle Jarrett and edited by Jessie Lau.
On State Library Victoria
Chris Dite, ‘In Australia, pro-Palestine writers are defying censorship‘, Jacobin, 28 March 2024. A long interview with Omar Sakr and myself.
Kerrie O’Brien, ‘State Library staff revolt over treatment of pro-Palestine writers‘, The Age, 14 March 2024. News article that revealed library staff were told the cancellation was due to Omar’s social media posts.
Tom Tanuki, ‘State Library Victoria cancels pro-Palestinian author for “cultural safety”‘, Independent Australia, 23 March 2024. Opinion piece with more detail from SLV staff leaks.
Radio: ‘Staff members and writers accuse State Library of stifling pro-Palestine voices‘, ABC Radio Melbourne, 15 March 2024. Short radio interview by Melbourne Mornings presenter Raf Epstein.
Jordyn Beazley, ‘State Library Victoria staff accuse management of ‘censorship and discrimination’ over pro-Palestine authors controversy‘, The Guardian, 14 March 2024.
Kerrie O’Brien, ‘State Library Victoria cancels workshops hosted by pro-Palestine writers‘, The Age, 7 March 2024.
Kelly Burke, ‘Writers puzzled after State Library Victoria cancels workshops for teens citing “child and cultural safety”‘, The Guardian, 6 March 2024.
Rosemary Sorensen, ‘Writers program pulled over “child and cultural safety”‘, Independent Australia, 3 March 2024.
On China
Online: ‘Tone Deaf‘, The Wire China, 25 February 2024, by Rachel Cheung. An in-depth feature on the escalation of censorship at Sixth Tone, a celebrated Chinese media outlet and my former workplace. Rachel spoke to 15 current and former staff including me.
Online: ‘For China’s LGBTQ community, safe spaces are becoming harder to find‘, NBC News, 13 June 2023, by Larissa Gao, Carina Cheng, Oliver Hu and Brigitte Pu. I spoke to Larissa about the closure of Beijing LGBT Center.
Online: ‘Queer China deserves better journalism‘, The China Project, 4 April 2023 by Jenny Feng. Jenny spoke me to me and journalist Stevie Zhang about how media outlets report on queer China and specifically Crikey’s retraction of its three-part “China’s queer purge” series.
Press for Underfoot
Radio: Sense of Place: Jinghua Qian and Liz Crash, Footscray, Blueprint, ABC Radio National, 10 October 2020, presented by Jonathan Green with producer Lisa Divissi.
Radio: Liz Crash and Jinghua Qian on Underfoot, Tuesday Breakfast, 3CR, 22 September 2020, presented by Genevieve Siggins and the Tuesday Breakfast team.
Print: There’s great stories underfoot, Maribyrnong and Hobson’s Bay Star Weekly, 8 July 2020, p 10, by Benjamin Millar. Also online on 12 August 2020.
Print: My Place, Maribyrnong and Hobson’s Bay Star Weekly, 27 January 2021, p 11, by Goya Dmytryshchak.
Other press
Podcast: The Wind Down Episode 23, Swinburne Journalism, 17 October 2021, presented and produced by Angus Delaney with the Axial Times team. We chatted about the games industry in China clamping down on queer representation and expression.
Online: Underpaid, exploited, revolutionary: how freelance writers in Australia battled the pandemic, Pulp, 11 October 2021, by Robbie Mason.
Radio: Going underground in the Wuhan punk scene, Arvos, Double J, 14 July 2021, presented by Tim Shiel with producer Dylan Saville.
Podcast: FCAC Radio S2E7: Jinghua Qian: Writing, eroticism and digital sex, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 28 April 2021, presented by Vyshnavee Wijekumar.
Radio and online: Senator Eric Abetz’s controversial questions about loyalty rattle Chinese communities in Australia, ABC, 22 October 2020, by Bang Xiao and Stephen Dziedzic.
Television and online: Report reveals racist abuse experienced by Asian Australians during coronavirus pandemic, 7.30, ABC, 23 July 2020, presented by Jason Om.
Podcast: Life Under Lockdown, Transdemic podcast episode three, 19 July 2020, by Sam Elkin, Gemma Cafarella and Darcy O’Connell.
Online: Critics step aside in show of solidarity for greater diversity in media, NITV News, 28 June 2020, by Nadine Silva.
Online: Profile in Correspondences newsletter, 5 April 2020, by Emma Thomson.
Radio: Cosmetic surgery and the Asian face: Whose beauty ideal?, Life Matters, ABC, 9 July 2015, presented by Natasha Mitchell with producer Isabelle Summerson.
Online/audio: Profile and performance of poem ‘Leaving traces’ for National Young Writers’ Month, 29 June 2015, by Izzy Roberts-Orr.
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