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Watching the dragon gain its fire

Published November 23, 2008, 7:43 am, Queensland Country Life

MORE than 50 years ago my father, like millions of others, left Communist China seeking a better life. He found it in Australia, working first at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market and later in Tasmania, where he ran a Chinese restaurant for more than 30 years.

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