Dragon Seed in the Antipodes
Subtitle: Chinese-Australian Autobiographies
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780522849417
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; Cultural studies; Immigration & emigration; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; Australia; General; Sociology - General
Description: "Dragon Seed in the Antipodes is a pioneering work on the nature and construction of Chinese-Australian identity. Shen Yuanfang's close examination of self-portraits by more than twenty Chinese Australians shows that they resist any facile generalisation about a unified Chinese identity." "The authors of these personal accounts, covering a period from the 1860s to the 1990s, fall broadly into five groups. There are nineteenth-century immigrants; those who arrived around the time of World War II; Australian-born Chinese; immigrants of Chinese descent from South-East Asian countries; and those who came recently from the People's Republic of China."--BOOK JACKET.