The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia Tapa dura - 1992

Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992. FINE. The Yellow Lady is the first major critique of Australian impressions of Asia. Alison Broinowski argues that Australians have been backward in developing an appropriate image of themselves because of their ignorance of and ambivalence towards Asians. She traces the history of Australian ideas about Asia and the Pacific from pre-colonial time to the present, and concludes that some of these perceptions, no matter how irrational or archaic, continue to underlie the political and economic decisions Australians make about the Asia-Pacific region. No one has ever looked so exhaustively at Australian images of Asia. Alison Broinowski, a longtime diplomat and writer about Asian issues, identifies these images, where they come from, and how they have changed or not changed. She investigates artists who took an interest in Asia and why they did so. They include visual artists, novelists, film-makers, composers, architects, poets, potters, playwrights,… Leer más

Oxford University Press ,Melbourne ,1992. First Edition .4to.pp.xii + 260, illustrations . index. bibliography. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 0195533828 the interaction between Australia and Asia through history, culture, art and business and the importance of our interdependence in the future.

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992-05-28. Hardcover. Good.

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