Conclusion: Imagining a Chinese future in PNG
Wood, Michael, Hayes, Anna, and Henry, Rosita (2024) Conclusion: Imagining a Chinese future in PNG. 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. 239-242.
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Abstract
In combination, the chapters in this volume reveal that the Chinese in PNG have never been a homogenous assemblage, but are a succession of distinct groups with different origins, languages, aspirations and political histories. By emphasising the internal diversity of the Chinese who have resided in PNG, we seek to provide impetus for further systematic exploration of this topic. We have highlighted the diversity of the Chinese inter-cultural interactions in workplaces, markets, economic and political spheres, and in other contexts and across different time periods in PNG. In their chapters, the authors view the topic through different disciplinary lenses, but in combination the volume provides a valuable multidisciplinary perspective on the Chinese past, present and future in PNG. Some contributors emphasised the multilingual practices of the Chinese in PNG. Others emphasised how the Chinese experience in PNG was a multi-state phenomenon and highlighted the importance of the circulation of the Chinese between different nation-states as much their circulation within PNG. Such diasporic histories point to different forms of citizenship and claims to sovereignty that external states have at various times claimed over the Chinese in PNG.
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| Item Type: | Book Chapter (Non-Research) |
| ISBN: | 9781760466404 |
| Keywords: | Papua New Guinea, China, Australia, Indo-Pacific |
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| Copyright Information: | This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2024 01:03 |
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