East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination - Softcover

(eds.), Miller/Ferrall; Smith, Keren; Millar, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864734913 ISBN 13: 9780864734914

Publisher: Victoria University Press, 2005

Synopsis

At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new. These essays ­ discuss ways in which people of Chinese descent have made significant contributions to the history of both Australian and New Zealand. This is the first book to compare both countries' orientalism and its various alternatives.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Ferrall teaches in the School of English, Film, Theater, and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics, coauthor of The Trials of Eric Mareo, and coeditor of Katherine Mansfield's Men. Paul Millar coordinates the New Zealand and Pacific literature program in the School of English, Film, Theater, and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter's Correspondence with Noel Ginn and several editions of James K. Baxter's poetry, including the New Selected Poems. Keren Smith lectures in the French section of Victoria University of Wellington's School of Asian & European Languages & Cultures.

About this edition

• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0864734913
• ISBN 13: 9780864734914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 439