NEW PUBLICATIONS - Rediscovered Past (Wong Hoy) and At Home in the Chinese Diaspora (Kuah-Pearce and Davidson)

Two new publications of interest to AAS scholars:

1. REDISCOVERED PAST: CHINA IN NORTH QUEENSLAND. Edited by Kevin Wong Hoy.
Rediscovered Past is an exciting collection of fresh research into Chinese Australian history and archaeology in north Queensland.This collection “offers a wealth of research garnered from primary sources … addressing a wide range of historical and heritage conservation issues. The deliberate concentration on north Queensland is satisfying in allowing a more complex engagement with the region and its specificities.”Rediscovered Past is an initiative of Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia Inc. This publication is NOW AVAILABLE:

>> Download order form for Rediscovered Past (MS-Word document; includes contents listing for the publication).


2. AT HOME IN THE CHINESE DIASPORA: MEMORIES, IDENTITIES AND BELONGINGS. Edited by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Andrew P. Davidson.
In At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings , the contributors interrogate current debates in relation to the ways in which memory, identity and sense of belonging help shape migrants' understanding of self, the diasporic community(ies) and the wider society in which they live. They describe the local and transnational challenges such diasporic communities face in their daily lives, how memories are reproduced, how they serve as social and cultural capital, how they create tensions and conflicts and how they change and impact on the individuals and communities across generational barriers. The authors also explore the role of place in situating memories and how the media, films and music portray and reinforce the understanding of identity.

This publication has significant Asian Australian material, including contributions by David Ip, Andrew Davidson and Lucille Ngan.

>> Visit the publisher's (Palgrave) site for this book: At Home in the Chinese Diaspora