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yProsthetic Gods : Travel, Representation and Colonial GovernanceRobert Dixon,
St Lucia:University of Queensland PressAPI Network,2001Z8954362001selected work criticism An interdisciplinary approach to white Australia's involvement with Melanesia in the first decades of the twentieth century examining, in relation to recent postcolonial theory, "a range of cultural representations, including ... travel writing and fiction".
This is the first major study of Chinese women in Australia and it examines issues of ethnicity, gender and identity. The author focuses on the post-1970s period when the end of the White Australia policy led to an influx of Chinese migrants.