Asian Accounts of Australia: Change, Comparison, and Analysis
See also: Asian Accounts of Australia: Bibliographies
Overview
A Joint project between the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia under the auspices of the Australian Research Council Strategic Partnerships with Industry Research and Training Scheme.
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has very large holdings of Asian material about Australia, in English, in Asian languages, and in Asian scripts. The ASIAN ACCOUNTS OF AUSTRALIA project received resources in 2000-2002 from the Australian Research Council and the NLA to examine this collection of 'Australiana' in Chinese and Japanese. A pilot project in 1999 had identified the most promising material as being in monographs and periodicals in both languages and, in the case of Chinese, in both traditional and simplified characters.
In order further to narrow the amount of material to be examined to fit within the resources of the project, researchers were asked to concentrate on monographs and periodical articles dealing with Australia in the following categories:
- Australia as a place of settlement
- Australia as exotic
- Australia as a model
- Australia/Asia geopolitical commentary
- Culture, both high and low
- Economics, trade and industrial relations
- Indigenous Australia
- Politics
- Tourism
- One Nation and Pauline Hanson
- An Australian republic
- Sydney Olympic games
The bibliographies of Chinese and Japanese holdings that were produced during the project were published on the Library's website in 2002.
Project Members
Research Associates involved with the pilot project in 1999 and with the ASIAN ACCOUNTS OF AUSTRALIA project in 2000-2001 were undergraduate and graduate students at the Australian National University:
Meredith Box, Anne-Marie Brady, Steven Bullard, Christine Ekhardt, Keiko Yamada Foster, Manabu Kawakatsu, Thomas Kwok, Nicole Mies, Ines Rittgasser, Bennis So, Masayo Tada, and Peter Trebilco.
Project Administrators were Ruth Barraclough, Nguyet Thi Chu Barraclough, and Judy Laffan.
