Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988
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18. G. A. Oddie, ‘The Chinese in Victoria, 1870–1890’ (Unpublished MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1959).
19. Sabine Hedwig Willis, ‘The Formation of Australian Attitudes toward China, 1918–1941’ (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, 1975). See also Maxwell Rowland Edwards, ‘The China Question: Australian Parliamentary Views of China, 1961–1971’ (MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1973).
20. Lachlan Strahan, ‘Australia’s China: 1941–1965’ (PhD thesis, Monash University, 1993), which was later published in book form as Australia’s China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Also see Francis Pat Hutchinson, ‘Australian Attitudes and Policies toward China, 1937–1949’ (MA thesis, Macquarie University, 1978).
21. See Lesley Dixon, ‘The Australian Missionary Endeavour in China, 1888–1953’ (Upublished PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 1976); T. R. Buggy, ‘Chinese Immigration and the Emergence of an Australian Image of China’ (MA thesis, Macquarie University, 1979); and Paul D. Williams, ‘The Red Menace Fades: Gough Whitlam and the Recognition of China’ (MA thesis, Griffith University, 1987). There is also a PhD thesis by Helen Chan, titled ‘The Adaptation, Life Satisfaction and Academic Achievement of Chinese Secondary School Students in Melbourne’ (Monash University, 1987).
22. Colin Mackerras, Western Images of China (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989).
23. J. V. D’Cruz, The Asian Image in Australia (Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1973).
24. Alison Broinowski, The Yellow Lady: Australia’s Impressions of Asia. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992).
25. Though J. V. D’Cruz did use first-hand material to point out the fact that there was ‘hard evidence, highly favourable to the Chinese’, as discovered by the Select Committee in the goldfields when the anti-Chinese feelings were running high. See his The Asian Image in Australia, 22.
26. Admittedly, while one could try to be as exhaustive as one can, one is bound to miss out. I, for one, did overlook one issue of Australian Cultural History on this topic, titled Australian Perceptions of Asia, ed. David Walker, Julia Horne, and Adrian Vickers (Kensington, New South Wales: School of History, University of New South Wales, 1990), although I now know why as it is probably because it does not specifically address issues of Chinese representation in literature. There is also a collection of Australian writings on Asia, edited and introduced by Robin Gerster, titled, Hotel Asia: An Anthology of Australian Literary Travelling to the ‘East’ (Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1995). This book, again, is not a critical study of the issue at hand.