{"title":"Ien Ang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIen Ang\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into cultural dynamics, migration patterns, and media history, illuminated through a scholarly lens. Her work delves into the complexities of identity, community, and communication within multicultural contexts, particularly focusing on the interactions between China and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect well-researched narratives that blend history and social analysis, shedding light on both the migration experience and the broader societal impacts it entails. These writings serve as valuable resources for those interested in history, education, and the evolving stories of cultural exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"china-australia-migration-corridor-by-ien-ang-9780522880229","title":"China-Australia Migration Corridor","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe China-Australia Migration Corridor\u003c\/em\u003e traces the legacy of migration from China to Australia from the 1840s until the present day. It offers a multidimensional examination of the footprint of migration as it exists, stretching between Zhongshan county in south China and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning heritage and migration studies, as well as Chinese diaspora history, this book highlights a transnational approach to the heritage of migration and the flows of people, ideas, objects, and money that circulate through migration corridors. Intricate, ongoing bonds are formed between those who migrated to Australia and their homes in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46653947609324,"sku":"9780522880229","price":43.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3936833482374.jpg?v=1752459085"},{"product_id":"the-sbs-story-by-ien-ang-9780868408392","title":"The SBS Story","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important book, based on extensive interviews and unprecedented access to SBS archives, argues that SBS is one of Australia's most significant and innovative cultural institutions and that its charter to broadcast for multicultural Australia is as relevant today as it was when the organisation started 30 years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe SBS Story\u003c\/em\u003e offers a comprehensive exploration of the station's role and influence, capturing the essence of its unique contribution to Australia's cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455804522732,"sku":"9780868408392","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71Gw7H1EQ4L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774799693"},{"product_id":"chinatown-unbound-by-donald-mcneill-9781538147894","title":"Chinatown Unbound","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChinatowns\u003c\/em\u003e are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of Chinatown was no longer that of an abject ethnic ghetto: rather, Chinatown was now seen as a positive expression of multicultural heritage and difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the early 21st century, however, these spatial and cultural constructions of Chinatown as an ‘other’ space – whether negative or positive – have been thoroughly destabilised by the impacts of accelerating globalisation and transnational migration. This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in this regard, through an in-depth case study of Sydney’s Chinatown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt speaks to the growing multilateral connections that link Australia and Asia (and especially China) together; not just economically, but also socially and culturally, as a consequence of increasing transnational flows of people, money, ideas and things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFurther, the book elicits a particular sense of a place in Sydney’s Chinatown: that of an interconnected world in which Western and Asian realms inhabit each other, and in which the orientalist legacy is being reconfigured in new deployments and more complex delimitations. As such, \u003cem\u003eChinatown Unbound\u003c\/em\u003e engages with, and contributes to making sense of, the epochal shift in the global balance of power towards Asia, especially China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470260617452,"sku":"9781538147894","price":109.62,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781538147894-chinatown-unbound.jpg?v=1775214879"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/ien-ang.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}