History Australia, Volume 21, Issue 1 (2024)

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Ruptured Histories: Australia, China, Japan

Editorial

Editorial
From the editors
Kate Fullagar, Jessica Lake, Benjamin Mountford & Ellen Warne
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Introduction

Introduction
Introduction: ruptured histories – Australia, China, Japan
Andrew Levidis & Sophie Loy-Wilson
Pages: 3-15
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Research Articles

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Histories of Chinese and Japanese residents challenging the White Australia Policy, 1945–1960: making the ordinary extraordinary
Nathan Daniel Gardner
Pages: 16-33
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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Collaborative famine relief: Chinese and British responses to the North China Famine from Melbourne, Victoria
Sarah May Comley
Pages: 34-53
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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‘Our friends the Chinese’: Australian advisers and images of China in the world wars
Tess Gardner
Pages: 54-71
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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Strictly unofficial business: Australia’s trade policy towards the People’s Republic of China, 1951 to 1966
Fangcheng ‘Frank’ Yuan
Pages: 72-89
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Celebrating Lunar New Year in modern Australia
Cindy Zhu
Pages: 90-110
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Landmark History

Review Article
Orienting Australia: David Walker’s Anxious Nation in the historiographies of Australia and Asia
Agnieszka Sobocinska
Pages: 111-123
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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Orienting Australia: response by David Walker
David Walker
Pages: 124-128
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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History off the Page Review

Media Review
Party games with no winners
Behind the Lines 2023, Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, 2023–late 2024, and online,
Joshua Black
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Melanie Burkett examines the rationale and vested interests behind the denigration of Australia’s first assisted immigrant
Opposing Australia’s First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42, by Melanie Burkett, Switzerland, Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, 256 pp., $AU158.76 (pbk), ISBN 978-3-030-84922-1, Publisher’s website:
Liz Rushen
Pages: 132-133
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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Alexandra Roginski explores the untold story of popular phrenology in the Tasman World
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, by Alexandra Roginski, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 271 pp., AU$146.32 (hardback), ISBN-10: 1316519449; ISBN-13: 978-1316519448, Publisher’s website:
Paul Turnbull
Pages: 134-136
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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Ann Curthoys, Shino Konishi and Alexandra Ludewig explore an island’s history through biography
The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island, by Ann Curthoys, Shino Konishi, and Alexandra Ludewig, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, Routledge, 2022, 212 pp., AUD$273 (hbk), ISBN 9781032185033
Samuel Furphy
Pages: 137-139
Published online: 11 Jan 2024
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Lyndon Megarrity discovers significance in a Queensland capitalist politician
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development, by Lyndon Megarrity, North Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022, xv + 335 pp., $AU49.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781922669865, Publisher’s website:
Stephen Wilks
Pages: 140-141
Published online: 11 Jan 2024
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Bill Metcalf explores aspects of Queensland history through a literary lens
Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares, by William (Bill) Metcalf, Brisbane, Brisbane History Group/Boolarong Press, 2022, xiv + 196 pp., $34.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781922643445. Publisher’s website:
Lyndon Megarrity
Pages: 142-143
Published online: 11 Jan 2024
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Kristen Alexander brings the stories of Stalag Luft III Australian airmen POWs to life
Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III, by Kristen Alexander, Mawson, ACT, Ad Astra Press, 2023, 220 + xviii pp., $30.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780645792515
Peter Monteath
Pages: 144-145
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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David Horner on how and why Australia’s leaders went to war
The War Game: Australian War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq, by David Horner, Allen & Unwin, 2022, 480 pp., $AU45 (pbk), ISBN 9781761065958, Publisher’s website:
Mia Martin Hobbs
Pages: 146-147
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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Graeme Davison reveals the power and potential of family history in Australia
My Grandfather’s Clock, by Graeme Davison, Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2023, 305pp., $AU50.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-522-87958-2. Publisher’s website:
Tanya Evans
Pages: 148-149
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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Heidi Dokulil invites us to embrace concrete
Sydney Brutalism, by Heidi Dokulil, Sydney, NewSouth Publishing, 2023, 226 pp., $AU49.99, ISBN 9781742236698. Publisher’s website:
Peter Hobbins
Pages: 150-151
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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