‘Race you there’ was kindly republished online in 2024 by Satellites, a living archive project to “connect the past, present and future of Aotearoa Asian art.”

Editor Emma Ng writes: “In this first issue, we’re republishing Tze Ming Mok’s iconic essay ‘Race you there’. The piece, which was the joint winner of the Landfall Prize in 2004, is the ur-viral essay of Asian New Zealand writing. Reading it catapults us back to 2004 — when the anti-Asian backlash of the 1990s was still warm, and Asian political solidarity was Bambi-legged and sometimes awkward.”

Click here to read ‘Race you there’, and here for the 20-year anniversary postscript, also published in Satellites #1.