Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s - Softcover

Strahan, Lachlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521484979 ISBN 13: 9780521484978

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

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First published in 1996, Australia's China explores the Australian encounter with China from 1937 to 1972. It traces patterns in Australian reactions to China across all classes - with images emerging of China as exotic, diseased, sexualised, and so on - revealing attitudes and mapping the formation of Australian cross-cultural identity.

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First published in 1996, Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the PRC in 1972. Going beyond conventional policy studies, it traces the patterns in Australian reactions to China from the grass-roots to official circles, highlighting the centrality of images concerning the exotic, disease, sexuality, the frontier, and China as a paradise/anti-paradise. In responding to China, Australians revealed something of themselves, and this book maps the formation of Australian conceptions of identity in the context of a cross-cultural encounter which was variously cooperative, enriching, baffling, and antagonistic. But there was no single Australian conception of China. Rather, competing perceptions jostled in a shifting dialogue.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521484979
• ISBN 13: 9780521484978
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392