In The Eastern Slope Chronicle, Ouyang Yu takes the reader on an epic journey to a famous literary town in inland China with his protagonist, Australian-Chinese poet, Dao Zhuang in search of a new life. Dao revisits his past in the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s and events that lead up to the June 4 Massacre in 1989. While working on the English translation of his Chinese novel written during the Massacre, Dao is also doing research for an Australia-based company. Identity, marginality and postcoloniality are explored on a massive scale in this intense Australian-Chinese story.

”The Eastern Slope Chronicle is Rabelaisian in scope. We are constantly up-ended as it tackles head on the cultural icons of Australia and China with an overload of grittiness… This is both an important social document and a forceful fiction.” Brian Castro

“With never a false note Ouyang Yu lays bare the reality of life in the limbo of a foreign culture. This bluntly honest and self-revealing book is a benchmark of cultural observation.”Rodney Hall