Asia in the making of New Zealand / edited by Henry Johnson & Brian Moloughney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Henry Mabley.

Moloughney, Brian, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians--New Zealand.

Asians.

Cultural pluralism--New Zealand.

Cultural pluralism.

National characteristics, New Zealand.

Relations.

New Zealand--Relations--Asia.

New Zealand.

Asia--Relations--New Zealand.

Asia.

New Zealand Region.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Asia in the Making of New Zealand explores how the burgeoning Asian population of New Zealand is affecting our understanding of Asia and altering the way we see our own identity. This impact of Asia on New Zealand is not a recent phenomenon but goes back to New Zealand's early years, and thus five of the essays in this book consider historical links between New Zealand and some Asian countries. Other chapters look at Asian aspects of contemporary kiwi culture, from the Indonesian gamelan, Indian identity, Muslim traditions as exemplified in the 'burqa' case, to Chinese and Korean use of the media. Essays are written by Tony Ballantyne, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Tim Beal, James Beattie, Stephen Epstein, David Hood, Henry Johnson, Erich Kolig, Jacqui Leckie, Brian Moloughney and Paola Voci, and the book includes a foreword by Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin and an afterword by Australian historian Professor Ann Curthoys. Asia in the Making of New Zealand offers a thoughtful and illuminating discussion of the rapidly changing, creative and dynamic multicultural society in which we now live.

Contents:

PT.1 HISTORIES AND CONTINUITIES

Ch.1 Teaching Māori about Asia : print culture and community identity in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Tony Ballantyne

Ch.2 Temperate New Zealand and tropical Asia : health colonization and conservation, 1840-1900 / James John Beattie

Ch.3 After gold : reconstructing Chinese communities, 1896-1913 / Brian Moloughney, Tony Ballantyne & David Hood

Ch.4 Gumboots and saris : engendering Indian settlers' history in Aotearoa / Jacqueline Leckie

Ch.5 Coming to terms with trade : exploring the implications of New Zealand's economic relationship with Asia / Tim Beal

PT.2 DIASPORA AND IDENTITY

Ch.6 Reinventing Indian identity in multicultural New Zealand / Sekhar Banypadhyay

Ch.7 Imagining the community : newspapers, cyberspace and the (non-) construction of Korean-New Zealand identity / Stephen Epstein

Ch.8 From Middle Kingdom to Middle Earth and back : Chinese media / mediated identities in New Zealand / Paola Voci

Ch.9 Striking accord! Gamelan, education, and Indonesian cultural flows in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Henry Johnson

Ch.10 Muslim tradition and Islamic law in New Zealand : the 'Burqa Case' and the challenge of multiculturalism / Erich Kolig

Afterword / Ann Curthoys.

Notes:

"Explores how the ... Asian population of New Zealand is affecting our understanding of Asia and altering the way we see our own identity"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index.

ISBN:

9781869403843

1869403843

OCLC:

86113880

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description