Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988
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27. In Hong Kong, there is a full-length study on the images of Chinese women in Anglo-American fiction by Mimi Chan, entitled Images of Chinese Women in Anglo-American Literature (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 1989).
28. There is, however, an article dealing with this topic, which is Betty L. Watson’s ‘Past a Joke: A Century of Australian Literary Attitudes to Chinese Sojourners’, Armidale & District Historical Society Journal & Proceedings 14 (1971): 33–43. Humphrey McQueen also briefly touches upon this in his article, ‘Racism and Australian Literature’, in Racism: The Australian Experience: A Study of Race Prejudice in Australia, vol. 1, Prejudice and Xenophobia, ed. F. S. Stevens (1971; Sydney: Australia and New Zealand Book Company, 1974), 143–163. There was, though, a full-length study of Chinese images in Australian fiction, for example, in an unpublished PhD thesis by Dai Yin, titled, ‘The Representation of Chinese People in Australian Literature’, with PhD awarded in 1994. I was aware of this at the time, but because I wasn’t able to access it from Melbourne and since I finished my own in late 1994, I did not end up using any material from his thesis.
29. Quoted in Lata Mani and Ruth Frankenberg, ‘The Challenge of Orientalism’, Economy and Society 14, no. 2 (May 1985): 183.
30. According to Yue Daiyun, professor at Peking University, postmodernist theories, including Edward Said’s Orientalism, were introduced at the end of the 1980s. See Yue Daiyun, ‘Standing at a Theoretical Crossroads: Western Literary Theories in China’, China Exchange News 21, nos. 3–4 (1993): 9–12.
31. Other examples are Harold R. Isaacs, Scratches on Our Minds: American Images of China and India (1958; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973); and Raymond Dawson, The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization (London: Oxford University Press, 1967), to cite but the most notable two.
32. I do, though, briefly touch upon these works and others in my preface.