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Australia's Asia : from yellow peril to Asian century / edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska.

Australia's Asia : from yellow peril to Asian century / edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska.
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ISBN 9781742583495 (pbk.)
Title Australia's Asia : from yellow peril to Asian century / edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2012.
Description [377] p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references p. [366-369]
Contents [1] The big three -- Contaminated by China -- Entangled: Deakin in India -- Rising suns -- [2] Racial identities -- Imagining the golden race -- Crossing oceans and cultures -- Glamorising racial modernity -- [3] Love and hate in the region -- Hearts of darkness, hearts of gold -- Loving guests in Bali -- [4] Chinese puzzles -- In the same bed dreaming differently -- Getting excited about China -- [5] Absent Asia -- Absenting Asia -- Donald Home finds Asia -- Teaching history in the `Asian century' -- Epilogue: the yellow sea
Summary To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of anxiety or hope.
Subjects Asians -- Australia -- History
Multiculturalism -- Australia
Australia -- Race relations
Australia -- Emigration and immigration
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History
Australia -- Relations -- Asia
Asia -- Relations -- Australia
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Walker, David, 1945-
Sobocinska, Agnieszka
Call number 305.895094 AUS
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