Chinese Whispers -- About the author -- Title page -- Imprint -- Dedication -- Author's note -- Contents -- Preface -- In Chinese: A story -- Shots through the bars -- The embarrassment of the kangaroo -- Taipei, 1994. The Leap Over. -- Peking, 1989. The Gap. -- Translating China -- Australia's China -- Bridging people: The Yellow Lady -- Asian impersonations -- History repeats: Ernest Morrison's China -- Romancers of Old Peking -- Sang Ye: curio merchant -- 'The web that has no weaver': Notes on cultural exchange -- Oodgeroo in China -- In the mountains under a blue sky -- My search for a shaman: Contemporary Chinese art -- Eunuch culture -- The beat goes on -- Screen dreams -- Green oil: Media images of Australia/Asia -- Taiwan: treasure island -- Cultural trading: What have we got to show? -- Out of Hong Kong: Timothy Mo -- Ice city: How to make friends in China -- Selected Bibliography -- Back cover.