After World War II, thousands of children from Naples boarded trains north to live with strangers who’d offered them a better life for a while. The Children’s Train tells that story through the eyes of one boy.
Australian history has mostly been told in English. This talk flips that, drawing on letters, essays and travelogues written in Chinese from the 1850s gold rush through to the 1950s, now translated and collected for the first time.
