The book includes accounts of growing up as Asians in Australia through creative fiction and non-fiction, as well as profiles of Asian-Australians in the public eye in 2008.
[1] Contributors include established authors such as film director Tony Ayres, Academy Award winner Shaun Tan, and award-winning writer Simone Lazaroo.
Also included are television personalities such as Jenny Kee, Annette Shun Wah, Kylie Kwong, Benjamin Law, Waleed Aly, Anh Do, and other writers of Asian heritage.
Amy Choi – "The Relative Adventures of Learning My Language" Sunil Badami – "Sticks and Stones and Such-‐Like" Tom Cho – "Learning English" Ivy Tseng – "Chinese Lessons" Ken Chau – "The Early Settlers" (Poetry) Ken Chau – "The Terrorists" (Poetry) Francis Lee – "The Upside-‐Down Year" Thao Nguyen The Water Buffalo Christopher Cyrill – "The Ganges and its Tributaries" Simon Tong – "The Beat of a Different Drum" Hop Dac – "Pigs from home" Annette Shun Wah –"Spiderbait" Lily Chan – "Take me Away, Please" Kevin Lai & Matt Huynh – "ABC Supermarket" (Comic Format) Aditi Gouvernel – "Wei-‐Lei and Me" Oliver Phommavanh – "Hot and Spicy" Ray Wing-‐Lun – "Lessons from my school years" Tanveer Ahmed – "Exotic Rissole" Vanessa Woods – "Perfect Chinese Children" Simone Lazaroo – "The Asian Disease" Rudi Soman – "Crackers" Oanh Thi Tran – "Conversations with my parents" Bon-‐Wai Chou – "The Year of the Rooster" Mia Francis – "Are you different?"
Benjamin Law – "Tourism" Ken Chau – "The Family Tree" (Poetry) Ken Chau – "The Firstborn" (Poetry) Diem Vo – "Family Life" Ken Chan – "Quarrel" HaiHa Le – "Ginseng Tea and a Pair of Thongs" Phillip Tang – "Teenage Dreamers" Shalini Akhil – "Destiny" Cindy Pan – "Dancing Lessons" Chin Shen – "Papa Bear" Glenn Lieu & Matt Huynh – "A New Challenger" (Comic Format) Benjamin Law – "Towards Manhood" Chi Vu – "The Lover in the Fish Sauce" Xerxes Matza – "The Embarrassments of the Gods" Lian Low – "My First Kiss" Jenny Kee – "A Big Life" Uyen Loewald – "Be Good, Little Migrants" (Poetry) Leanne Hall – "How to be Japanese" Tony Ayres – "Silence" James Chong – "Anzac Day" Mei Yen Chua – "Special Menu" Michelle Law – "A Call to Arms" Joo-Inn Chew – "Chinese Dancing , Bendigo Style" Interviews with high-profile Australians including Shaun Tan and Waleed Aly.