Sinophone Australia

Book

Museum of Chinese Australian History

Name/Title

Sinophone Australia

Description

Sinophone Australia opens a new window onto Australian history by foregrounding Chinese-language sources as a lens through which to reinterpret the nation’s past. This groundbreaking volume brings together a rich collection of primary sources – letters, essays, travelogues – written in Chinese and now translated into English, spanning from the gold rush era of the 1850s to the postwar reflections of the 1950s. Each chapter includes an introduction written by a historian who has engaged with these sources and offers a familiar yet fundamentally different perspective on the Australian experience. In this respect, Sinophone Australia revises the Anglo-hegemony of historical writing, providing glimpses of non-English historical documents with the hopes that this will lead to the expansion of Australian history, just as a new multilingual generation of historians stands up to interpret the vast amount of source documents written in other languages.

Book Details

Editor

Smith, Craig A.

Edition

First

Series

China and the West in the Modern World

Publisher

Sydney University Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Sydney, NSW

Date Published

May 1, 2026

Printer

Image Content Group Australia

Place Printed

City

Dandenong, Vic.

Publication Language

English

Publication Subjects

Chinese language sources

Call No.

994.004 SMI

ISBN

9781761540592

Notes

There are 2 copies available in the library