| Main Title: |
Unexpected encounters : neglected histories behind the Australia-Japan relationship / edited by Michael Ackland and Pam Oliver. |
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| Author: |
Ackland, Michael, 1951-
Oliver, Pamela M.
Monash University. Monash Asia Institute
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| Publisher: |
Caulfield East, Vic. : Monash University Press, |
| Collation: |
xxvl, 210 pages : illustrations, paperback ; 21 cm. |
| Summary: |
Henry Black: consummate Meiji man--Harold S Williams and his Japan--Frank A Nankivell's Japan: from means to marker--Peter Russo and Japan: a controversial relationship--Paths of wrath and reconciliation: homophobia, Japan and the life-work of Harold Stewart--A matter of perspective : two Australian-Japanese families' encounters with white Australia, 1888-1946--The Hirodo story: a three generational family case study of bi-cultural living--Ten years in a Victorian jail: the convict as the 'other'--Theatres of discipline in the age of consenual euphoria: performing globalisation and 'empire' in recent contemporary performance in Australia and Japan.
Telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity and ambition in times of war and peace. The essays collected here illuminate a variety of fascinating lives and individual achievements, from trade to literature and the arts, the media and the justice system. For over 150 years, people have been shaped by and contributed to the breadth, strength and diversity of the Australia-Japan relationship. As the editors and their contributors contend, a transnational relationship is ultimately constituted by hundreds of untold, seesawing and yet fruitful personal encounters that overcome prejudice, and blur the boundaries set by official and unofficial racial mores.--publisher. |
| Subject: |
Foreign policy and relations
Australia
Japan
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| ISBN: |
9781876924508 |
| Notes: |
Bibliography: p. 191-210.
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