Sinophone Australia - Couverture souple

Smith, Craig A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1761540599 ISBN 13 : 9781761540592

Editeur : Sydney University Press, 2026

Synopsis

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. Understanding Australian history through sources written in a different language offers a familiar yet fundamentally different perspective on the Australian experience.

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 primary sources translated into English and preceded by an academic introduction written by a historian who has engaged with these sources. 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this respect, Sinophone Australia revises the Anglo-hegemony of historical writing, providing glimpses of non-English historical documents with the hopes that this will lead to the expansion of Australian history, just as a new multilingual generation of historians stands up to interpret the vast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.

Beyond its contribution to Australian history, Sinophone Australia positions these narratives within the broader framework of the global Sinophone, addressing themes that resonate across settler colonies and Chinese-speaking communities worldwide. Sharing analysis from historians who have extensive experience working with Chinese-language sources on Australian history, Sinophone Australia invites scholars and readers to reconsider the intersections of language, migration and identity in shaping historical knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Craig A. Smith is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute. He is a historian of modern East Asia and an avid translator. He is the author of Chinese Asianism (Harvard University Asia Center, 2021) and the co-editor of Translating the Occupation (University of British Columbia Press, 2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sydney University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1761540599
• ISBN 13: 9781761540592
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 295
• Éditeur: Smith Craig A.
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