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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 China and the West in the Modern World
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'China and the West in the Modern World publishes original, peer-reviewed research on cultural, diplomatic, and trade relations between China and the West from the accession of the Manchu Qing dynasty in 1644 to the present. The series aims to map and interpret historical and cultural interactions during the gradual opening up of China to an enterprising and expansive West as a sequence of Chinese emperors and governments developed policies of accommodation and exclusion in reaction to pressure from Western commerce, culture, and religion. The focus of this series will be on the way different events, ideas and beliefs, and cultural practices (in art, architecture, literature, music, science, trade, politics, diplomacy, gender and family relations, cooking and dress) of the Chinese and Western nations were understood and evaluated – and misunderstood and misevaluated – by each other. The series brings into play different national and disciplinary perspectives to achieve a more thorough and cross-culturally nuanced understanding of the political, economic, and cultural background to the negotiations and realignments currently underway between China and Western nations.'

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多妻毒 1909 single work novel

'This story follows the life of a young Chinese man who leaves his wife in his home village in southern China to seek his fortunes in the Victorian goldfields. His adventures later take him to Melbourne’s Chinatown in Little Bourke Street, before the final tragic end back in the village in China where it all began.'

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The Poison of Polygamy
Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2019
y separately published work icon South Flows the Pearl : Chinese Australian Voices Mavis Yen , Siaoman Yen (editor), Richard Horsburgh (editor), Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2022 23091550 2022 selected work interview biography

'South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in their own words.

'This unique book was written by an insider. Mavis Yen was born in Perth in 1916, the daughter of a Chinese father and an Australian mother. She lived in both countries and understood what it meant to navigate two worlds, to live through war and revolution, and to experience racial discrimination. In the 1980s she began interviewing elderly Chinese Australians, recording hours of conversations. Her intimate understanding of their languages and life experiences encouraged them to share their stories. Published here for the first time, they will change how you think about Australian history.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2022

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First known date: 2019
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