The Yellow Lady Australian Impressions of Asia

by Broinowski, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780195533828
• ISBN10: 0195533828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-05-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Named after a notorious Norman Lindsay impression of Asia, this work traces the history of Australians' perceptions of their Asian and Pacific hemisphere from pre-colonial time to 1991. The book adopts a roughly chronological approach, from Aboriginal contacts with Indonesia, through the colonial period when responses to both Asia and the Pacific depended on whether artists considered themselves attached to the European past or to the regional present, to a period when increasing numbers of Asians migrate to Australia and Asia's financial dominance becomes unavoidable.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Australia's New World
Australasians	p. 2
Whites Only	p. 6
Neo-Orientalists	p. 14
The Circular Route: Prehistory to 1945
Image-makers	p. 20
Emulators	p. 40
Internationalists	p. 47
Across the Diameter: 1945 to 1968
Enemies	p. 58
Travellers	p. 74
Exiles and Aliens	p. 99
On the Road: 1968 to 1991
Followers and Leaders	p. 116
Heretics and Dogmatists	p. 128
Regionalists	p. 160
Australians and Asians	p. 172
Conclusion: The Best of Both Worlds
Images of East and West	p. 198
Another Century	p. 204
Illustrations	p. 206
Glossary	p. 209
Notes	p. 211
References and Sources	p. 233
Index	p. 252
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