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Double vision : Asian accounts of Australia / edited by Alison Broinowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : Pandanus Books, 2004Description: x, 161 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1740760492
  • 9781740760492
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.5094 22
LOC classification:
  • DU113.5.C5 D68 2004
Contents:
Introduction / Alison Broinowski and Anthony Milner -- East Asian perceptions of Australia / Kevin Rudd -- 1. Who cares what they think? : John Winston Howard, William Morris Hughes and the pragmatic vision of Australian national sovereignty / John Fitzgerald -- 2. 'Before we came to this country, we heard that English laws were good and kind to everybody' : Chinese immigrants' views of colonial Australia / Paul Macgregor -- 3. Australian lovers : chingchong Chinaman, Chinese identity and hybrid confusion / Kam Louie -- 4. Haigui : a keyword for 2003 / Ouyang Yu -- 5. Murakami Haruki's Sydney diary / Leith Morton -- 6. Tampa in Japan : East Asian responses to Australia's refugee policy / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- 7. 'Japanese' accounts of Australia : a player's view / Yoshio Sugimoto -- 8. Reading Japanese reflections of Australia / Masayo Tada -- 9. Asian Australian studies in Asia : China and Japan / David Carter -- 10. Australia as model or moral / Alison Broinowski.
Summary: The distinguished contributors to this book use their knowledge of Chinese and Japanese accounts of Australia and use them to discuss how Australia is perceived among Chinese and Japanese. They explore topics such as settlement and invasion; exoticism and tourism; culture, education, politics and regional participation, etc.Review: "Do Australians care about what their Asian neighbours think of them - and does it matter if they don't? This collection of essays reveals that admiration for Australia is not widespread, particularly among Japanese and Chinese commentators. And how our Asian neighbours perceive Australia is important: perceptions have a powerful effect on the way different societies respond to one another." "As part of the Asian Accounts of Australia project, this volume addresses a much-neglected issue and presents the views of pre-eminent scholars on how Australia is perceived among Chinese and Japanese and what this means for our future."--BOOK JACKET.
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Introduction / Alison Broinowski and Anthony Milner -- East Asian perceptions of Australia / Kevin Rudd -- 1. Who cares what they think? : John Winston Howard, William Morris Hughes and the pragmatic vision of Australian national sovereignty / John Fitzgerald -- 2. 'Before we came to this country, we heard that English laws were good and kind to everybody' : Chinese immigrants' views of colonial Australia / Paul Macgregor -- 3. Australian lovers : chingchong Chinaman, Chinese identity and hybrid confusion / Kam Louie -- 4. Haigui : a keyword for 2003 / Ouyang Yu -- 5. Murakami Haruki's Sydney diary / Leith Morton -- 6. Tampa in Japan : East Asian responses to Australia's refugee policy / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- 7. 'Japanese' accounts of Australia : a player's view / Yoshio Sugimoto -- 8. Reading Japanese reflections of Australia / Masayo Tada -- 9. Asian Australian studies in Asia : China and Japan / David Carter -- 10. Australia as model or moral / Alison Broinowski.

The distinguished contributors to this book use their knowledge of Chinese and Japanese accounts of Australia and use them to discuss how Australia is perceived among Chinese and Japanese. They explore topics such as settlement and invasion; exoticism and tourism; culture, education, politics and regional participation, etc.

"Do Australians care about what their Asian neighbours think of them - and does it matter if they don't? This collection of essays reveals that admiration for Australia is not widespread, particularly among Japanese and Chinese commentators. And how our Asian neighbours perceive Australia is important: perceptions have a powerful effect on the way different societies respond to one another." "As part of the Asian Accounts of Australia project, this volume addresses a much-neglected issue and presents the views of pre-eminent scholars on how Australia is perceived among Chinese and Japanese and what this means for our future."--BOOK JACKET.

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