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Navigating Boundaries : The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781921934384
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Navigating BoundariesDDC classification:
  • 305.895016476
LOC classification:
  • DS13 .N385 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping Australasia -- 2. Tidal Flows -- 3. The Chinese Diaspora in Torres Strait -- 4. 'They don't know what went on underneath' -- 5. Heriberto Zarcal -- 6. The Japanese in Torres Strait -- 7. The Sri Lankan Settlers of Thursday Island -- 8. John Douglas and the Asian Presence on Thursday Island: 1885-1904 -- 9. Coloured People -- 10. Confluence -- 11. Historical &amp -- Contemporary Asian Elements in the Music &amp -- Performance Culture of Torres Strait -- 12. Voices from Torres Strait -- Index -- Biographies.
Summary: 'Navigating Boundaries' belongs to a new generation of Asian-Australian historical studies. The essays presented here draw on an extensive, widely dispersed body of information, including much unpublished material, in order to narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping Australasia -- 2. Tidal Flows -- 3. The Chinese Diaspora in Torres Strait -- 4. 'They don't know what went on underneath' -- 5. Heriberto Zarcal -- 6. The Japanese in Torres Strait -- 7. The Sri Lankan Settlers of Thursday Island -- 8. John Douglas and the Asian Presence on Thursday Island: 1885-1904 -- 9. Coloured People -- 10. Confluence -- 11. Historical &amp -- Contemporary Asian Elements in the Music &amp -- Performance Culture of Torres Strait -- 12. Voices from Torres Strait -- Index -- Biographies.

'Navigating Boundaries' belongs to a new generation of Asian-Australian historical studies. The essays presented here draw on an extensive, widely dispersed body of information, including much unpublished material, in order to narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland.

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