Alter/Asians
Subtitle: Asian-Australian identities in art, media, and popular culture
By: edited by Ien Ang ... [et. al.].
Contributors: Ang, Ien.; Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies.
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Asians -- Australia -- Social life and customs.; Asians in mass media.; Ethnic mass media -- Australia.; Mass media and minorities -- Australia.; Performing arts -- Australia.; Popular culture -- Australia.; Multiculturalism -- Australia.; National characteristics, Australian.; Australia -- Race relations.
Description: The presence of Asians within Australia continues to be represented in the media as a problem for social cohesion, and a source of panic. This book explores this controversial topic in contemporary Australian society and culture. For the first time in the post-Hanson era, it looks at how Australia and Asia are already intertwined.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-313) and index.
"This book arises out of a conference hosted by the Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies (RCIS) at Customs House in Sydney in early 1999 ..."--P. xi.