Research Catalog

Title

Japan in Australia : culture, context and connections / edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]

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Additional Authors

• Chapman, David, 1961-
• Hayes, Carol

Description

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on context and connection between two nations. It examines how Japan has been imagined, represented and experienced in the Australian context through a variety of settings, historical periods and circumstances. Beginning with the first recorded contacts between Australians and Japanese in the nineteenth century, the chapters focus on 'people-to people' narratives and the myriad multi-dimensional ways in which the two countries are interconnected: from sporting diplomacy to woodblock printing, from artistic metaphors to iconic pop imagery, from the tragedy of war to engagement in peace movements, from technology transfer to community arts. Tracing the trajectory of this 150-year relationship provides an example of how history can turn from fear, enmity and misunderstanding through war, foreign encroachment and the legacy of conflict, to close and intimate connections that result in cultural enrichment and diversification. This book explores notions of Australia and 'Australianness' and Japan and 'Japaneseness', to better reflect on the cultural fusion that is contemporary Australia and build the narrative of the Japan-Australia relationship." --

Series Statement

Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

Uniform Title

Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series.

Subject

• Diplomatic relations
• Public opinion, Australian
• Public opinion, Japanese
• Japan > Foreign relations > Australia
• Australia > Foreign relations > Japan
• Japan > Foreign public opinion, Australian
• Australia > Foreign public opinion, Japanese
• Australia
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: celebrating Japan in Australia / Alan Rix -- Japan in Australia, an introduction / David Chapman and Carol Hayes -- Youthful first impressions: Tsurumi Kazuko and Shunsuke in Australia, 1937 / Tomoko Aoyama -- Forging an Australian artistic modernity: how Japanese woodblock prints informed Margaret Preston's early paintings and prints / Penny Bailey -- Japan-Australia friendship through bat and ball: the Yomiuri Giants' baseball tour of Australia in 1954 / Ai Kobayashi -- Japan at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics / Morris Low -- Japanese sleeping beauties abroad: Australian retellings of Kawabata Yasunari's fairy-tale novella / Lucy Fraser -- The irrepressible magic of monkey: how a Japanese television drama depicting an ancient Chinese tale became compulsory after-school viewing in Australia / Rebecca Hausler -- Nikkei Australian identity and the work of Mayu Kanamori / Timothy Kazuo Steains -- Trans-asian engagement with Japan in/and Australia / Koichi Iwabuchi -- The Australian literary scene and Murakami Haruki: Nobel Laureate heir apparent or marketing overhype? / Laura Emily Clark -- Why introductory Japanese? An Australian case study / Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson -- Mobility and children crossing borders / Ikuo Kawakami -- Coda / Roger Pulvers -- On the streets of our town / Vera Mackie.

Call Number

JFE 20-3752

ISBN

• 0367184699
• 9780367184698

OCLC

1105725345

Title

Japan in Australia : culture, context and connections / edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Chapman, David, 1961- editor.

Hayes, Carol, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3752