The yellow lady : Australian impressions of Asia / Alison Broinowski.
"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 thec...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Melbourne ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| 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 thecolonial 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."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 260 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195533828 9780195533828 0195534522 9780195534528 |