**Australian Triptych in Chinese-Language Migrant Fiction: Three Novels, Three Periods, Three Images**

This article takes three examples of Sinophone (Chinese-language) Australia-set fiction to examine how images of Australia in this corpus are keyed to moments of migrant and geopolitical history. While the work of ‘Tiananmen Generation’ author Shen Zhimin comically relates the twists and turns of migrants in Australia as a school of hard knocks, a blog-like novel by Dalian-born, Melbourne-based Andongni conveys the optimistic if laconic cosmopolitanism of middle-class students of the Hu-Wen years. On the other hand, Xinjiang-born Yang Fang’s 2021 story, ‘The Australian Uncles’, published as Sino-Australian diplomatic relations were at their nadir, depicts migration to Australia as resulting in vice and misfortune – Australian migration as admonitory fable of Western decadence. This corpus offers a unique and diverse image of Australia, and one that is distinct from Chinese-Australian fiction in English. These texts demand a multilingual approach for the better understanding of this country’s literature.