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Empires of the Sun

Author(s) -

Andrew Jakubowicz

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

cosmopolitan civil societies an interdisciplinary journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31

H-Index - 5

ISSN - 1837-5391

DOI - 10.5130/ccs.v3i1.1850

Subject(s) - multiculturalism , politics , government (linguistics) , political science , white paper , white (mutation) , political economy , media studies , sociology , law , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene

“The Chinese” have been Australia’s Other since before Federation, and a major driver behind both the creation and abolition of White Australia. The complex and multiple layers of engagement of the Chinese (an omnibus term with many strands and contested perspectives which the paper will explicate) in the Australian political system, from the government to government machinations, to their involvement in a wide range of political parties, indicates something important occurring that transcends the problematic of multiculturalism. The paper argues they help us understand the challenges of globalised post-multicultural politics

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