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

Strahan, Lachlan

Cambridge University Press（1996/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521484978
• DDC分類 303.48251094

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction; Part I. 1941-1949: 1. The rise and fall of our valiant ally; 2. The den of iniquity; 3. Lepers, madmen and demons; 4. Keeping China at bay; Part II. 1950-1989: 5. The Chinese anti-utopia; 6. The dread frontier; 7. The Chinese paradise; 8. An alternative new China; 9. The den of iniquity revisited; 10. Reckoning with China; Conclusion.