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See how the leaf people run is a radio play about the early settlement of the Hmong people in Australia in the 1990s. The Hmong are an ethnic minority Asian group, who came mostly as refugees to Australia in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Developed as part of the Ian Reed Writer-in-Residence program with Radio National, the play explores themes of masculinity, of belonging, of home.
Michele Lee is Hmong, and was born and raised in Canberra.
//See how the leaf people run/// was nominated for a 2013 AWGIE for Original Radio Drama.
"'Here. Here, here. We are here … Listen!' So speak the spirits of the dead, in Michele Lee’s See How the Leaf People Run. This is the story of the Hmong people, an ethnic minority originally residing in South-East Asia and their bloody history of resistance to Communist forces in the Vietnam and related wars. It’s also the story of Michele’s own ancestry. And a story about ghosts."
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