scholarly journals Historical Narratives of Sinophobia – Are these echoed in contemporary Australian debates about Chineseness?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Georgina Tsolidis
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Economic Relationship

Historically, Australianness has been defined in contradistinction to its location – a British bastion in the Asia-Pacific region.A fear of being swamped by the Chinese – the ‘yellow peril’ – prompted federation, and a restrictive migration policy aimed at making Australia white. Thus, sinophobia has been significant in the national imaginary. This paper discusses how contemporary representations of Chineseness may be echoing this historic narrative of fear about being overrun. This is explored in the context of China’s shifting global significance and Australia’s growing economic relationship with China.

scholarly journals Historical Narratives of Sinophobia – Are these echoed in contemporary Australian debates about Chineseness?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Georgina Tsolidis
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Economic Relationship

Abstract Historically, Australianness has been defined in contradistinction to its location – a British bastion in the Asia-Pacific region.A fear of being swamped by the Chinese – the ‘yellow peril’ – prompted federation, and a restrictive migration policy aimed at making Australia white. Thus, sinophobia has been significant in the national imaginary. This paper discusses how contemporary representations of Chineseness may be echoing this historic narrative of fear about being overrun. This is explored in the context of China’s shifting global significance and Australia’s growing economic relationship with China.

Is There a LatAm-US-China Economic Triangle?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osvaldo Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Bilateral Approach ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Near Term ◽  
The One ◽  
Investment In China ◽  
The U.S

Latin America experienced economic ups and downs in the past decade, and faces a gloomy outlook for 2015–2020. This chapter first delineates the near-term growth prospects for the region, examining the subregional patterns closely with three national cases—Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela—and analyzing the external constraints for the region’s economic growth. It then examines the major challenges ahead for the region with analysis of Latin America’s economic relationship with the United States and China, respectively. On the one hand, while the U.S.’s current bilateral approach leaves the economic relationship with the region fragmented, the economic and trade cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America can be strengthened through fostering productive integration and the development of regional value chains oriented toward the U.S. market. On the other hand, China’s growing presence in the region poses challenges to Latin America countries, namely achieving export diversification, diversification of Chinese investments in the region, and Latin investment in China and Asia-Pacific.

The Reinscription of Life, Labour, and Property in David H.T. Wong’s Escape to Gold Mountain

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 137-163
Author(s):  
Malissa Phung
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
National Imaginary

Situated within comics and graphic life writing scholarship, this article examines the rhetoric of serially illustrating Chinese labour in David H.T. Wong’s Escape to Gold Mountain. It reads the alignment of dead, murdered, injured, and struggling Chinese labourers alongside Indigenous characters and Chinese North American trailblazers as part of the book’s commemorative impulse to memorialize these historical figures and relationships in the (trans)national imaginary. It also claims that the narrative’s rhetorical shifts, from satire to irony, melancholy to condemnation, all form an ethical appeal to the reader to remember and honour the lives and contributions of the Gold Mountain migrants when their presence in the visual and historical archive has been dehumanized by Yellow Peril discourses. However, the article concludes that Wong’s anti-racist memorial project also problematically reinvests in the model minority myth, indigenizes the figure of the Chinese labourer, and upholds a settler colonial relationship to the land.

The “Yellow Peril” and the Asia-Pacific War

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Barder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Japanese Empire ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Imagination

This chapter explores the history of racialized threats and fears of Asia in the Western imagination. It shows that the discourse of the “yellow peril” can be understood as a process of world-making of “Asian” alterity through ideas of threat and insecurity; it is a discourse of anxiety wherein the global racial imaginary is seen as being in crisis and what potentially replaces it is a world of disorder and violence. The second section of the chapter then examines how both the Japanese and the Americans engaged in the racialization of each other: first, in terms of how the Japanese empire itself internalized its own version of racial order in response to the global racial imaginary; second, for the United States, as a way of intensifying the violence against a racial other, which can be traced back to the settler colonial plans of the nineteenth century. I conclude the chapter by showing how the global racial imaginary functioned within the United States during the early Cold War period by representing the Soviet Union as the Asiatic other.

The Eurasian Economic Axis: Its Present and Prospective Significance for East Asia

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-759
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Dent
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Weak Link ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Economic Regions

The economic relationship between East Asia and the European Union (EU) has been the subject of increasing academic attention. This has been heightened by politico-institutional endeavors to strengthen the weak link in the “Triad” (Europe, East Asia, North America—the world's dominant economic regions) since the early 1990s, including various bilateral initiatives such as the 1991 Japan–EU Declaration and the 1996 Korea–EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement, as well as the new interregional “dialogue framework” provided by the Asia–Europe Meetings (ASEM). The ASEM has wider geoeconomic significance in that it constitutes the last interregional Triadic arrangement to fall into place, the others being the Asia–Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum (augmenting the transpacific axis) and the New Transatlantic Agenda (transatlantic axis).

scholarly journals RUSSIA’S FAR EASTERN POLICY IN THE LATE 19TH — EARLY 20TH CENTURY IN THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE RESEARCHERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Denis A. Anan’ev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
German Language ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sociocultural Processes ◽  
Far Eastern

The paper analyzes the works of the English- and German-language researchers who studied the history of Russia’s Far Eastern policy at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. According to these scholars, a striking feature of that policy was the inseparability of the foreign and internal political tasks, while its main result was Russia’s involvement in the war against Japan. However, Western authors focused not only on the foreign policy and military aspects of the “Russian eastward expansion” (analyzed by C. von Zepelin, A. Malosemoff, S. Marks, R. Quested, J. Stephan) but also on the geographic, demographic, social and economic aspects (B. Sumner, A. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, R. Quested, D. Geyer, J. Lensen et al.). The ideological component of the Far Eastern policy (associated with the ideas of Russia’s historical civilizing mission in Asia and the need to oppose the “Yellow Peril”) was considered in the works by A. Malozemoff, D. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. The economic reasons for the development of the region were discussed by the authors who studied processes of “modernization” and S. Yu. Witte’s policy of “peaceful penetration” (B. Sumner, A. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, R. Quested, D. Geyer, J. Lensen et al.). Sociocultural processes that led to the formation of “national identity” and “regional identity” were analyzed by J. Stephan, Ch. Y. Hsu, D. Wolff, Sh. Corrado. Despite the diversity of conceptions proposed by the Englsih- and Germanlanguage researchers it is possible to identify the two key trends in the study of the topic. The majority of works emphasized the expansionist intentions of Russia as one of the “imperialist powers” who participated in dividing spheres of influence in the Asia-Pacific region. However, many authors acknowledged Russia’s objective need to strengthen its position on the Pacific frontier, to protect its Far Eastern territories, to settle them and develop their economy.

scholarly journals Open Migration Policy and Security

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 416-421
Author(s):  
Madiyem Layapan ◽  
Romzi Ationg ◽  
Mohd. Sohaimi Esa ◽  
Mohd. Azri Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Policy Improvement ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Do So

The advent of post-colonial era shows Asia-Pacific regions such as Malaysia, China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have restricted migration policy. Despite the restriction, intellectual debates about the prospect of having open migration grew. The debates generally concentrate on what exactly are the benefits and risks of introducing open migration. This paper seeks to discuss what exactly are the benefits and risk of having open migration policies. To do so, it is argued that explanation on what exactly are the benefits and risk of having open migration policy must be tracked down by analyzing the security, economic and cultural issues in receiving country. Accordingly, based on literature as well as documents review, this paper suggest that open migration policy can be a source of security threats in receiving country which including the way that open migration may bring about uncontrolled population growth. In contrast, open migration policy may bring about economic and cultural enrichment in receiving country. Therefore, given the fact that open migration may bring about risks and benefits to receiving countries, this paper also explores the prospect of migration policy improvement as means of application for not only preventing the country form any risks, but also consolidating the economic and cultural enrichment though migration policy.

Germany's Asia-Pacific Empire

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific
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