Model Minority Gone Rogue
How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script
$32.13
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 March 2024
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AND 2025 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR
We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don’t be that. Qin Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don’t rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority.
But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular risk and change everything.
At 23, Qin Qin was an unhappy overachiever …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733649844 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 073364984X |
| Author: | Qin Qin |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
Model Minority Gone Rogue by Qin Qin is funny, sharp, sometimes furious, and always eloquent. From a searing analysis of changing Asian stereotypes in the West to personal stories of coming up against ingrained cultural beliefs about the self, meritocracy, and systemic exclusion, this book treads new ground without losing sight of the personal, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. * Age Book of the Year judge Lorin Clarke *
I binged it. It’s quirky, funny, hard, exhilarating… I related so hard. * Ginger Gorman, journalist and best selling author Troll Hunting *
A call to everyone who is dissatisfied with whatever box they’ve found themselves inhabiting to find their own courage to go off script. * Julia Lawrinson, award-winning writer *
ACT Book of the Year Award 2025 judges: ‘a striking contribution to a growing sub-genre of burnout literature, offering a fresh and fearless voice in contemporary storytelling.’
About The Author
Qin Qin
Qin Qin was born in Southwest China and grew up in Canberra as a first-generation Chinese Australian. She began her career as a model minority poster child at five-years-old. By 29, she was a Harvard graduate with four degrees working for UNICEF.
After a quarter-life crisis, Qin Qin realised life wasn’t an exam to ace and veered off-script. That gave her the courage to pursue her own path. She was recognised for her work and named a 40 under 40: Most Influential Asian Australian in 2020 and a past winner of the Young Australia China Alumni of the Year Award.
Qin Qin now lives in Canberra with her husband James and golden retriever Oprah. After recovering from an internet and technology addiction, Qin Qin rediscovered her love of writing. She was shortlisted for Penguin Australia’s 2021 Write It Fellowship and received a residency at Varuna The National Writers’ House in 2023.
Qin Qin continues to unlearn social expectations, heal from trauma and limiting beliefs, and to figure out what she is doing with her life. Her life mission is to live consciously with love, towards a more peaceful and sustainable world.
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