| Description |
1 online resource (345 pages) |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1 -- Mapping Australasia: reflections on the permeability of Australia's northern maritime borders; 2 -- Tidal Flows: an overview of Torres Strait Islander-Asian contact; 3 -- The Chinese Diaspora in Torres Strait: cross-cultural connections and contentions on Thursday Island; 4 -- 'They don't know what went on underneath' : three little-known Filipino/Malay communities of Torres Strait; 5 -- Heriberto Zarcal: the first Filipino-Australian; 6 -- The Japanese in Torres Strait; 7 -- The Sri Lankan Settlers of Thursday Island |
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8 -- John Douglas and the Asian Presence on Thursday Island: 1885-19049 -- Coloured People: a challenge to racial stereotypes; 10 -- Confluence: Asian cultural contributions to ailan pasin; 11 -- Some Historical and Contemporary Asian Elements in the Music and Performance Culture of Torres Strait; 12 -- Voices from Torres Strait; Index; Biographies |
| Summary |
Navigating Boundaries belongs to a new generation of Asian-Australian historical studies. These essays narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland. Early chapters give an overview of Torres Strait Islander/Asian/European interaction, documenting the experiences of people from the five major Asian communities in the Torres Strait: Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Japanese and Sri Lankan. Later chapters inspect the early authorities of Torres Strait, including the former Resident Magistrate Hon. John Douglas (who admired Torres Strait and Pacific Islanders |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Asians -- Torres Strait
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Asians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life
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Asian diaspora -- Intellectual life
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Asians
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Pacific Ocean -- Torres Strait
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nagata, Yuriko
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Ramsay, Guy
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| ISBN |
9781740761093 |
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174076109X |
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