Wood, Michael, and Backhaus, Vincent (2024) What was Colonial in Extending Australian Citizenship to New Guinea Chinese? In: Hayes, Anna, Henry, Rosita, and Wood, Michael, (eds.) The Chinese in Papua New Guinea Past, Present and Future. Pacific Series . ANU Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 53-76.

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Abstract

Papua New Guinean, Chinese and Australian people have long been entangled in the creation of complex histories and political debates concerning the similarities and differences of each group. These debates are fundamental to understanding how a sense of national unity in Papua New Guinea is formed, as well as within analyses of the wider world of strategic power dynamics and influence. The Chinese in Papua New Guinea offers a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the Chinese in Papua New Guinea. Chinese, Papua New Guinean and Australian interactions are analysed in the context of ongoing shifts in colonial power, increased regional engagement with China, and current political instabilities across the Indo-Pacific region. The many ways the Chinese have been defined as actors in PNG’s history and politics are analysed against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global order. The complexity of Chinese experiences within Papua New Guinea is given expression, here, with chapters that stress political and historical heterogeneity, the importance of language for understanding Chinese social relations, and that articulate rich personal experiences of race relations.

Item ID:	82901
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9781760466404
Copyright Information:	This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence
Funders:	James Cook University JCU
Projects and Grants:	JCU, The Cairns Institiute, JCU, College of Arts, Society and Education
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 02:19
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4401 Anthropology > 440107 Social and cultural anthropology @ 50% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430301 Asian history @ 25% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430315 History of the pacific @ 25%
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