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Being Chinese in Australia: A Personal Journey single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Being Chinese in Australia: A Personal Journey
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    y separately published work icon Imagining the Chinese Diaspora : Two Australian Perspectives Gungwu Wang , Annette Shun Wah , Canberra : Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora , 1999 Z1570765 1999 selected work criticism This publication combines two lectures given under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Chinese Southern Diaspora at the Australian National University in February 1999. That of Wang Gungwu is based on the inaugural CSCSD lecture, which he gave at the Centre's formal opening on 26 February 1999. That of Annette Shun Wah was a keynote lecture presented the following day to the CSCSD symposium on 'reconceptualising diaspora'. Canberra : Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora , 1999
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Seeing Double : The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Wenche Ommundsen , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory , no. 16 2008; (p. 90-109) 'Chinese and other Asians, this essay argues, performed a structural function in the developing national consciousness of Australia as the racial/cultural Other against which the national self was defined and towards which its fears and desires could be projected. Today, Chinese Australian writers use the image of the double to explore their own position in the national psyche. To what extent, they ask, is it possible to imagine a merging of Asian and Australian, observer and observed, representation and self-construction? Is the Chinese-antipodean identity always a site of conflict and contradiction or can it be lived as a happier kind of hybridity?' -- Author's abstract
Seeing Double : The Quest for Chineseness in Australia Wenche Ommundsen , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory , no. 16 2008; (p. 90-109) 'Chinese and other Asians, this essay argues, performed a structural function in the developing national consciousness of Australia as the racial/cultural Other against which the national self was defined and towards which its fears and desires could be projected. Today, Chinese Australian writers use the image of the double to explore their own position in the national psyche. To what extent, they ask, is it possible to imagine a merging of Asian and Australian, observer and observed, representation and self-construction? Is the Chinese-antipodean identity always a site of conflict and contradiction or can it be lived as a happier kind of hybridity?' -- Author's abstract
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